Sunday morning, October 14, 1962, two U-2 surveillance spy planes took flight over Fidel Castro's Cuba. After taking numerous pictures of the area, the United States did their routine analyzes of the photographs. After months of suspicion of Russian nuclear weapons installation, it was proven that the Soviet Union was installing nuclear weapons in Cuba. The photographs suggested that two types of missiles were being installed. "The first was medium-range ballistic missiles, capable of traveling about 1100 nautical …showed first 75 words of 2177 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2177 total…heroes. With the threat of nuclear war, and the Bay of pigs invasion and caused the Cuban Missile Crisis the United States handled it in the most safest and mature way possible. For example, the numerous letters between Kennedy and Khrushchev which led to the conclusion of the Cuban Missile crisis. But the question to be asked is what does the Cuban Missile Crisis do to our relationship with one of the world's greatest power?