Cuban Missile Crisis By: Carl Christiansen For a long time, the Soviets thought that they were years a head of the US in terms of intercontinental missiles. After all, they had put 'Sputnik' into orbit, well before the US had dreamt of such an act. Most of the Soviet organizations did not believe that there was a necessity to build more intercontinental missiles. This carelessness made it harder for the Soviets to understand and deal …
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…of the zone. which many messages were exchanged and the parties started to prepare for war) Khrushchev announced, on October 28, that the construction of the sites had stopped. Khrushchev also recognized that the missile placed on the island were of offensive nature. Although the Soviet premier declared that a UN agency could verify his promise, such a UN inspection never took place. The US government, following its U-2 flight inspections, lifted the quarantine on November 20.