countries were in possession of nuclear weapons during the Cold War, and a race to produce more than the other ensued. The USSR, who had less money and technology to develop nuclear weapons than the USA, developed a plan to "bridge the missile gap" . The USSR lacked long range missiles that the USA already had, but if the Soviets put shorter range missiles on land closer to the USA, this technological problem would be circumvented. The USSR thus allied itself closely with Cuba and its socialist leader Fidel Castro, with whom they shared a common communist ideology. The USSR and Cuba had been actively engaging in trade in the early 1960s, which improved Cuban-So
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