cuban missile crisis By: n "Nuclear catastrophe was hanging by a thread ... and we weren't counting days or hours, but minutes."Soviet General and Army Chief of Operations, Anatoly Gribkov The closest the World has ever been to nuclear war was with The Cuban Missile Crisis. The lives of millions lay in the ability of President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev to reach an agreement. The crisis began when the United States discovered …showed first 75 words of 955 total…

…showed last 75 words of 955 total…the world's major military powers to the brink of nuclear war. The Cuban missile crisis marked the point at which the Cold War began to thaw. This also lead to the signing of the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which stated that nuclear test in the atmosphere and underwater were against the law. Those thirteen days left the world in awe of the determination and responsibility of the United States and its young president (Hersh 342).