Cuban Missile Crisis In 1960, as tensions grew between the Soviet Union and the United States, the premier of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, began planning to secretly supply Cuba with nuclear missiles. Not until 1962 did the United States gain knowledge of these actions and begin to take action. The United States president, John F. Kennedy, warned, “The gravest issues would arise” should the Soviets continue to place nuclear weapons in Cuba. A standoff took place …showed first 75 words of 2776 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2776 total…it is the signing of the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963 by Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. It banned nuclear test explosions both in the air and underwater, but did allow for them underground. It is just a shame that it had to come to such extreme measures so that a treaty of this sort could be signed. Hopefully it will keep the world from experiencing similar situations in the future.