Date(s): October 16, 1962 to October 28, 1962 Location: , , Tag(s): Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuba, Kennedy, CIA, Cold War, JFK, Khrushchev, Castro, U.S.S.R., Soviet, Communist “Thirteen Days” in October 1962, or better known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, was a dangerous time when a nuclear war could have occurred. The Soviet Union (U.S.S.R) secretly placed missiles in Cuba in 1962 to support Fidel Castro’s administration against the United States. Castro and his rebels had overthrown the American-backed president and military dictator, Fulgencio Batista, in 1959....