The Encounter
-National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy warned President John F. Kennedy about the crisis
-Two days before the alert a U-2 Spy Plane (U.S. military surveillance aircraft) took hundreds of pictures over Cuba
-The Photographs taken by the U-2 Spy Plane showed what was believed to be a Soviet missile base that was under construction.
- The Soviet base that was being constructed was only approximately 90 miles from the coast of Florida.
-Different options were on the table such as an airstrike/invasion or naval quarantine.
-Some Photos show other sites in Cuba and 16 to 32 missiles.
-President Kennedy asks Nikita Khrushchev to stop the supplies going into Cuba, if the russian ships got close to the quarantine the navy would have no choice but to fire, which would ignite a war.
-The President tries to convince Nikita convincing him to get rid of the missiles by convincing him that a nuclear war will prove nothing but start a war in which no one wins causing the catastrophy of the world, the situation wouldn't be bad or just affect the victims but the aggressor as well.
- An american U-2 is shot down over Cuba killing the pilot,Major Rudolf Anderson.
-Khrushchev announces over radio Moscow that he has agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba.