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The Cuban Missile Crisis effectively began on October 14, 1962, when a U.S. U-2 spy plane captured photographic evidence of Soviet nuclear missile launch sites under construction in Cuba. This discovery led to a tense thirteen-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union that brought the two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war, with the crisis officially starting when President John F. Kennedy was briefed on the missiles on October 16. The Cuban missile crisis marked the clim