President Kennedy speaking to the press at the White House, 24 October 1962
Sixty years ago, for 13 days, the world held its breath, hoping Cold-War tension between the USA and the USSR (dominated by Russia) would not result in the total annihilation of human life.
The Cold War was an ideological rivalry between the USA’s liberal-capitalist democracy and the USSR’s Soviet Communism. Nuclear weapons gave them fear of mutual destruction, so it was a ‘cold war’ due to the lack of actual conflict. Instead, each side propagandised against each other and funded other countries in proxy wars under their ideological banners.
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