Most historians agree that the world came closest to a nuclear war with the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, when President John Kennedy discovered that the Soviet Union had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba and warned Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to remove them or else. For two weeks messages flashed back and forth between Moscow and Washington. As tension mounted and U.S. forces, including nuclear-loaded B-52s, were placed on high alert, the Soviets blinked, agreeing to dismantle the sites and ship their missiles back to Russia.
“When Japan invaded Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941, Churchill was at Chequers, the country house of the Prime Minister. He immediately felt that the war was won. “With America and the Soviet Union as.
“When Japan invaded Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941, Churchill was at Chequers, the country house of the Prime Minister. He immediately felt that the war was won. “With America and the Soviet Union as.