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- Superpower rivalry
- nearly destroyed
- the world in 1962
- when Soviet leader
- Nikita Khrushchev
- secretly deployed
- nuclear missiles on
- Cuba, within easy
- range of the US.
- Kennedy blockaded
- Cuba and demanded
- the removal of the
- missiles. Nuclear
- war was a matter
- of minutes away
- when Khrushchev
- backed down
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