Council on Foreign Relations

Thu, 15 Oct 2026

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The United States Discovers Soviet Missiles in Cuba

On October 15, 1962, senior U.S. officials learned that their fears had come true—the Soviet Union was installing nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba.

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Major Richard S. Heyser’s U-2 Mission Discovers Soviet Missiles in Cuba

A U.S. Air Force reconnaissance flight photographed evidence that the Soviet Union was installing nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba, touching off the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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