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The World On the Brink: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21
Just over a month after the crisis began, the President terminates the quarantine after the conclusion of tense discussions at the United Nations over the disposition of Soviet nuclear bombers and submarine bases. The U.S. is satisfied with the progress made in dismantling and withdrawing the missiles.
Three decades later a Soviet military spokesman would reveal that tactical nuclear weapons, nine Luna missiles and six mobile launchers with a range of thirty miles and the explosive power of half the Hiroshima bomb, had been available for use at the discretion of Soviet field commanders in the event of an American invasion.
Read All of the Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges during the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Read other documents and memoranda from the Cuban Missile Crisis
