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Primary Source Five

4/27/2015

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Primary Source Five
Introduction
This document is a handwritten note summarizing the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis from October 23, 1962.


**Unofficial Transcript**

Cuban Missile Crisis, 
October 23, 1962: 

US announced USSR had started building aggressive missile bases in Cuba.

President Kennedy ordered US naval and air forces to establish immediate “quarantine” (partial blockade) of Cuba to prevent further delivery of aggressive [sic] weapons aboard Soviet-bloc or any other ships.

USSR said US action could end in thermonuclear war; warning that Soviet ships would not submit to search.

UN Security Council convened; Acting Secretary A Thant pleaded for negotiation.

Kennedy charged Soviet-Cuban action had upset precarious status quo which had long existed between East & West in regard to nuclear weapons.

Source
"Summary of the Day's News," October 23, 1962, Cuban Missile Crisis Archive 1962, https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cuban_missile_crisis/23_october_summary.pdf



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