in 1963 we had the cuban missile crisis when the world was on the brink of nuclear war how was it averted?

Answer 1

As the two superpowers hovered close to the brink of nuclear war, messages were exchanged between Kennedy and Khrushchev amidst extreme tension on both sides. On October 28 Khrushchev capitulated, informing Kennedy that work on the missile sites would be halted and that the missiles already in Cuba would be returned to the Soviet Union. In return, Kennedy committed the United States never to invade Cuba. Kennedy also secretly promised to withdraw the nuclear-armed missiles that the United States had stationed in Turkey in previous years. In the following weeks both superpowers began fulfilling their promises, and the crisis was over by late November.

Answer 2

In the public domain the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1963 was averted at sea by the ships of the United States Navy, which blockaded access to Cuban ports. This in effect stopped Russian ships, who transported the nuke missiles to Cuba, from gaining entry to any of the ports there. Thus they eventually had to turn back.

In reality the reason for the stand down by the Soviets was entirely to do with the fact that JFK and Nikita Khrushchev [Russian leader], had a long-standing dialogue by letter which was on very friendly terms and concerned such issues as family life as well as the politics of the day.

Answer 3

In 1961, the U.S. started deploying 15 Jupiter IRBM (intermediate-range ballistic missiles) nuclear missiles at 5 sites near Ä°zmir, Turkey, which directly threatened cities in the western sections of the Soviet Union, including Moscow, through its 1500 mile range and flight time of about 16 minutes. These missiles were regarded by President Kennedy as being of questionable strategic value, but the USSR saw them as a threat to the nuclear balance. So Nikita Khrushchev publicly expressed his anger at the Turkish deployment, and regarded the missiles as a personal affront. The deployment of missiles in Cuba — the first time Soviet missiles were moved outside the USSR — is commonly seen as Khrushchev's direct response to the Turkish missiles.

So when Kennedy agreed to remove the Jupiter missiles (which was done by April 1963), and not to invade Cuba, Khrushchev ordered the ships who carried the missiles turned around. End of blockade, nuclear war avoided.

Answer 4

The Cuban Missle Crisis was averted by a simple 'quid pro quo' made between President Kennedy and Premeire Krushev: if the U.S. takes its missiles out of Turkey the Soviet Union will take its missiles out of Cuba.

Answer 5

JFK gave the Russian president an ultimatum. Unless they remove the missiles from Cuba America would launch a nuclear attack on the USSR. It came down to the wire but the Russians backed down at the last minute. Thank God.

Answer 6

Why is there never a conspiracy theorist around when you need one? We all know that the Cuban missle crisis was a contrived event, started by Florida cigar manufactureres to get the Cuban cigars out of the US market, so they could sell more. The crisis was averted when Castro signed an agreement not to send anymore Havana Cigars to the US. Not

Answer 7

President Kennedy initiated a blockade that prevented the Russians from delivering missels to Cuba. Called the "Cuban Blockade". Only food was allowed in.

Answer 8

The missile crisis was a bit of a bluff by the Russians. They positioned the rockets but they were never fitted with a payload. The Russians only backed off when Kennedy called their bluff.

Except of course he was only bluffing too. If he carried out his threats he would have wiped Cuba away and as soon as those rockets were launched Russia would have fired on the US, then the UK and (what was left of) US would have fired on Russia but at least everyone would have got great sun tans.

Answer 9

It was averted when Kruschev ordered the ship carrying a misile to Cuba to turn around. He was forced into taking the decisive decision as he had compartatively better intelligence than the Kennedy administration due to the KGB infiltration of Washington (the USSR, by contrast, being a more closed society was harder to penetrate) and knew how the US was likely to react. Superior knowledge is a disadvantage in lose-lose scenarios.

Answer 10

In exchange for the USSR removing nuclear missles the United States agree to remove missles as well from Italy and a few other locations. See, what your history teacher doesn't know is that the US had nukes pointed at the USSR before the USSR set them up in Cuba.