e Soviets had instrustion to launch the missiles within minutes of Kennedys speech. After Castro listened to the Presidents speech he moblized all of Cubas military forces.The Organization of American States approved the US quarantine of Cuba and by the end of the day the US ships were in line and were prepared to destroy and ship that failed to stop at that line. On Wednesday, October 24th the Soviets ships approached the quarantine line. Soviets ship stopped when they received a radio message from Moscow.On Thursday, October 25th the Military alert was raised to DEFCON 2, the highest ever in US history. At any moment the US could launch an attack on Cuba or the Soviet Union. The US received a letter from Khrushchev in reply to Kennedys speech. The letter said that they would remove the missiles if Kennedy publicly guaranteed that the US would never invade Cuba. Another U-2 flew over Canada and saw that the Soviets were camoflauging the missiles. Khrushchev then sent another letter to Kennedy and raised the price of removing the missiles. The Soviets now wanted the US missiles removed from Turkey. Kennedy decided to ignore it and respond to the first letter only.On October 28th, Khrushchev announced that the Soviets would dismantle the missiles in Cuba. The US did not remove their missiles from Turkey and by Khrushchev backing down he ruined his career but he prevented nuclear disaster.Nine months after this crisis, President kennedy and Khrushchev signed an agreement to ban nuclear testing in the atmosphere. This was the beginning of a new communication. On November 22nd, 1963, President kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Eleven months later Premier Khrushchev was removed from office by Communitsts. The only one question left is, what would have happened if these two men stayed in power?...
