Bay Of Pigs & Missile Crisis

In these times of superpower tussles over a variety of issues, the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962, less than 150-km off from the US shores, might be worth recalling. The nuclear-armed Soviet missiles and perceived threat to the US that caused the crisis did not happen overnight. The US had engineered a coup in Cuba in 1952 to instal a government that was pliant to Washington.