ion, for a retaliatory blow, to any other country, for instance Cuba. Our nuclear weapons our so powerful in their explosive force and the Soviet Union has such powerful rockets to carry these nuclear warheads, that there is no need to search for sites for them beyond the boundaries of the Soviet Union" (Allison/Zelikow 79)
             So why place nuclear weapons on Cuba's soil? First from the Soviet side there were a number of possible reasons. They would argue that the U.S. based missiles in Turkey, which to the Russians was dangerously close. The next issue was that of the U.S. attempt to overthrow the communist leader Castro,
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