Abstract
The Washington and Moscow relations deteriorated culminated to the worst during 1962, on the issue of missiles which is commonly known as the Cuban Missile Crisis (CMC) in history. The crisis culminated to the brink of nuclear war between both superpowers. It can be said that it was the part of the Cold War Doctrine in which Cuba played a vital role. It was the head of the Cuba, Mr Fidel Castro who instigated this event which culminated to the brink of the war (nuclear) between the USA and the United Soviets Socialist Republic (USSR). The USSR aim in engaging in the CMC had multi-purposes. The US believed that it would be simple to remove Mr Castro from the political power through various means. However, all the US efforts to remove Castro from the Cuban government failed utterly. Fidel Castro's popularity became more apparent when he sided with the Soviets Union. His government challenged the US and brought the Soviet Union close to pressurise Washington to get a good political deal. This paper, therefore, is designed to understand the political situation of the three countries and their political leadership role in averting the nuclear disaster in the region. Further, it is investigated that to what extent the installation of the Nuclear Missiles in Cuba succumbed to the political disturbance in Washington.
Highlights
The missile crisis of Cuba (CMC) of 1962 remained the major event of history which brings Washington and Moscow to the brink of an Atomic war between the two nuclear power countries
Kennedy asserted on October 22 that any missile attack on the US from the Cuban soil by the Soviets will be considered as the declaration of war and will be responded with full force by the USA
The philosophy behind installing the nuclear missiles was to show to the US that Cuba is not alone in the political turmoil, the Soviet Union shall be there to protect her allies
Summary
The missile crisis of Cuba (commonly known as the Cuban Missile Crisis) (CMC) of 1962 remained the major event of history which brings Washington and Moscow to the brink of an Atomic war between the two nuclear power countries. It was the “the most dangerous crisis the world has ever seen” (Laffey & Weldes, 2008). An Irish-American Catholic was staunch anti-communist from the very beginning (Boyle, 1993), had continued confrontational cold war methods He continued the policy of hard-line towards Castro as was maintained earlier (Grathoff, 2002). In the Bay of Pigs Operation of 1961, and in the Congo, Berlin, and Vietnam, Kennedy, adopted strong measures to strengthen the American influence by curbing the communist expansions (Burne, 1985)
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