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Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the most important conflicts in Cold War history. It was the first time the United States and the Soviet Union had come close to a full-scale nuclear war. On October 14, 1962 US spy planes reported the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, which is 90 miles off the coast of Florida. The first sighting reported the presence of a ballistic missile launching site. It was later discovered