CUBA-US-USSR-MISSILE CRISIS-60TH ANNIVERSARY

Retired Cuban Colonel Oscar Larralde, who remembers hearing the explosions that downed an American spy plane over Cuba in 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis, walks in front of a wall that commemorates the place where a Soviet SAM (Surface Air Missile) shot down the US U-2 spy plane, during an interview with AFP in the village of La Anita, Cuba, on October 11, 2022. - October 22, 2022, marks the 60th anniversary of US president John F. Kennedy announcing a naval blockade around Cuba, at the start of the 'Cuban missile crisis.' The 35-day (16 October 20 November 1962) Cuban missile crisis and its aftermath was the most serious US-Soviet confrontation of the Cold War. On October 15, 1962, the US army discovered several Soviet nuclear missile ramps on the island of Cuba. Days later President Kennedy ordered the maritime blockade of the island. After several days of negotiations between Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, first secretary of the CPSU, during which the world lived under the threat of nuclear war, the USSR retreats. After coming close to nuclear disaster, the two great powers decide to set up the hotline. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)