Were going to start with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuban missile crisis was 1962. It took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. The United States at that point had long been flying High Altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. Its interesting. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very precisely identified in all the history books as having started on october 16th. Two days after that u2 spy plane captured those images in cuba. But the crisis didnt start on october 16th because something happened that day, because there was some overt act by cuba, there was some provocation there or some announcement by them, it didnt start because on october 16th there was some act by the
soviet union or some announcement by the soviets that kicked off this crisis. The reason we can be so specific about when the Cuban Missile Cris
theresa may today announcing that this attack on sergei skripal and his daughter was an unlawful use of force by the russian state against the u.k. she went on to announce the expulsion of 23 russian diplomats in response, cancelled-hicancelled high-level meetings, britain is pulling back from participation at world soccer events this year and she is cutting back on international flights. her announcement was followed by an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council, which included actually quite strong remarks from america s ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley. the united states believes that russia is responsible for the attack on two people in the