the cuban missile crisis

The cuban missile crisis was the closest we ever came to nuclear war. This nearly happened because in 1962 the U.S. found out that the soviet union had been giving missiles to cuba. This greatly frightened the U.S. because these missiles were being readied to maybe shoot at the U.S.
We found out about these missiles because of our U-2 planes photographing Cuba. however we didn't come to nuclear war because of negotiations between our then president John F. Kennedy and then dictator of Soviet Union Kruschev. We worked out a treaty in which the Soviet Union would remove their missiles from Cuba as long as the U.S. removed their missiles from Turkey. The two agreed to this and nuclear war was averted.