The Tom Bearden WebsiteHis superweapons were not yet ready, and the US. could have easily destroyed the Soviet Union. Reluctantly he backed down and removed the missiles, after first blustering enough to get an agreement from Kennedy not to attack Cuba.
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the Communist world, this was a serious loss of face by Khrushchev. He knew his days were numbered unless he did something dramatic to recoup stature.
Accordingly, as soon as his new superweapons were deployed and ready, Khrushchev did that "something dramatic" On
April 10, 1963 he destroyed the
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