missle silos in cuba?

Question

about the cuba missle crisis. is it true that Americans built missle silos in Cuba in the 50's. my granddad was a marine, and was stationed in cuba in the 50's. my dad says he was there helping build missle silos. this claim is strengthened by the fact that he was a metal worker. is there some dark passage of this part of history

Answer 1

New York Times
October 19, 1999
U.S. Once Deployed 12,000 Nuclear Weapons in 2 Dozen Nations

By JUDITH MILLER

The United States stored 12,000 nuclear weapons and components in Morocco, Japan, Iceland, Puerto Rico, Cuba -- a total of at least 23 countries and five American territories -- during the cold war, according to a new article based on a recently declassified document.

The document, a secret study written by the Defense Department and entitled "History of the Custody and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons," is described in the cover story of the November/December issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Altogether, the article says, between 1945 and 1977 the United States stored 38 types of nuclear weapons systems abroad. Among countries with the most, Germany had 21 types of systems, Guam had 20, and the Japanese island of Okinawa, which was then under American occupation, had 19, the article says.

While it has long been known from other declassified documents that the United States has deployed nuclear weapons and materials overseas, the article offers confirmation that the deployments were widespread and sheds new light on how widespread the practice was.

http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/a191099.htm