Cuban missile crisis

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…Neither was willing to wage war, specially not Russia since their missile bases in Cuba were unfinished. Many things could have changed the course of the crisis to the point of disaster: if Kennedy had chosen to use air strikes, if Russia had crossed the quarantine line, if Kchruschev didn't agree to peace, if the missile bases had been finished. Luckily these things weren't, and the world was saved from a potentially catastrophic nuclear war.