Cuban Missile Crisis?

Question

Was the outcome of the Cuban missile crisis a victory for the USA or USSR? Could it have been a victory for both sides?
Or was it a stalemate?
Please no short 'The USA won' answers.
Thank you.

When I said "Please no short 'The USA won' answers."
I was referring to answers that make a claim without backing up there statement.
Sorry for confusion.
Feel free to say the USA won, just back it up with evidence.

Answer 1

It was a draw. The Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba. We removed a semi-obsolete missile system from Turkey. But, Cuba also got something. We made a pledge that we would not invade Cuba in the future.
Both sides dodged a bullet in this crisis. It wasn't until the Soviet Union collapsed that we learned the senior soviet military commander in Cuba had authority to launch the intermediate missiles without requesting permission from Moscow Center and he also had launch authority for the short-range nuclear ("Frog") missiles if we had landed troops to invade the island.
It also cleared a lot of heads about the danger of accidentally triggering a nuclear war. A "hot line" between the White House and the Kremlin came about through this crisis. In addition, the Marine Brigadier General who commanded the Fifth MEB at Guantanamo during the crisis spent a lot of time protesting at the Nevada Nuclear Weapons Testing site after his retirement.

Answer 2

The Cuban Missile Crisis was such a big event for the Americans because they had to compromise and make an agreement with the Russians not to invade Cuba once the Russian missiles were taken out of Cuba.

Answer 3

We made them stand down.
They made us pull some missiles from Turkey. The problem here is that Kennedy had ordered them to be removed in 1961 anyway.

We still had plenty of tactical nukes scattered around Germany. Pershing missiles arrived in Germany after the Cuban party. They had 1/3 the range but could still make your day a bad one.

I spent 27 months (4/74-7/76) at Fliegerhorst with about 100 tactical rounds for both 8" guns and stuff the Engineers would use to blow BIG chunks of road. Stuff belonged to 3rd Armored and V Corps.

With that in mind it was a win/win with us getting a better deal.

Answer 4

IMHO it was a victory for the USA, although they had to give up their missile bases on the Turkish-Soviet border. The end result was the US kept Soviet nuclear missiles out of the Western Hemisphere in Cuba, a mere 90 miles from American soil. At the very least, this gives the US a longer warning envelope for incoming missile attacks, should one occur.

Answer 5

It was a victory for the USSR they obtained a promise that the US would pull nuclear missiles out of Turkey in return for the removal of theirs from Cuba.

Answer 6

But that is the answer. The USA won.

Answer 7

Stalemate, the Soviets pulled thier missles out of Cuba, we pulled our missles out of Turkey.

Answer 8

It also bankrupt Russia.