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Cuban Missile Crisis - Soviet decided to put nuclear missiles in Cuba

Time: Thursday Feb 22, 1962

Place: Cuba

Details: Timothy Naftali has contended that Escalante's dismissal was a motivating factor behind the Soviet decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962.

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