Was the Cold War ever in danger of becoming hot?

Question

I am writing an essay on this topic as an asignment for school and I will appreciate some viewpoints other than my own.Thanks

Answer 1

sure it was........Cuban Missle Crisis......watch 13 Days and you'll hear references and such to guide you with your essay...........other times in history that got hot, were when Reagan was eleceted and called for the stop of nuclear weapons technology.....Star Wars.......there are sites on the internet that have teacher lesson plans and you can draw from that material more information

Answer 2

The three times the cold war could have ignited were in 1948/48, during the Berlin Blockade, the Chinese intervention in the Korean War in 1950, and again in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Other smaller, but potentially dangerous times were the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961.

Answer 3

Cuba was probably the closest, but also very high on the list was during the Yom Kippar War......US detected a Russian cargo ship moving through the Bosporus from the Black Sea ( Russia) towards the Med ( Egypt/Syria). Aboard was something that set off the nuke detectors we had/have in Turkey.
Fearing it was A-Bombs for the Egyptians or Syrians, ol' Nixon and Kissinger called up Brezhnev on the hotline and said.. " About that ship? If it enters the Mediterranean we're sinking it. Period. End of Story. Your Move".

Ship turned back.

We're still here.

Answer 4

VERY much so. There were several times we were on the brink, but especially during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early 60's. We discovered that the Soviets had equipped the Cubans with missiles, and they were set up pointed at us. We set up a blockade of Cuba and warned the Soviets to remove the missiles, or we would bomb them. It was touch and go for a few days, but they finally removed the missiles. I believe it was about then that Kruschev told Kennedy they would send their bombers to destroy us, and Kennedy calmly relplied, "Ah, but where will they land?"

Answer 5

There were notably three crises during that time. The Korean War, the Cuban Missle Crisis and the Viet Nam War.

Answer 6

Don't forget the Checkpoint Charlie incident. It was a standoff between American and Soviet ground forces. Only time during the Cold War where American and Soviet ground forces openly faced each other.