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Originally Posted by Toby
Thoes Evil Americans puting an embargo on a country that let Communist Russia park nukes within firing range of America. What were they thinking!
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The US planted nukes in Turkey first. The USSR retaliated a defensive strategy in lieu of Nuclear weapons pointed at Moscow in Turkey. Also the US implemented measures to have no countries except the USSR to have trade relations with Cuba.
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However, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 very nearly provoked a nuclear war. The Soviet Union was placing nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the US coast at Florida. This was said to be in response to US nuclear missiles being placed in Turkey, close to the Soviet border.
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http://www.comeclean.org.uk/articles.php?articleID=14
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03-15-2008, 10:09 PM
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