Remembering History: Time Magazine November 9, 1962 (The Cuban Missile Crisis and Nikita Khrushchev: The Adventurer) The U.S.’s testy relations with Castro’s Cuba reached a low point following the botched Bay of Pigs invasion. The U.S.S.R.’s Nikita Khrushchev came to the Caribbean isle’s aid with a plan to plant Soviet missiles on Cuban soil. That led to the most dangerous standoff of the Cold War—an exercise in brinkmanship and 11th hour diplomacy that, in TIME’s view, backfired on the Soviets.

Time Magazine November 9, 1962 (The Cuban Missile Crisis and Nikita Khrushchev: The Adventurer) The U.S.’s testy relations with Castro’s Cuba reached a low point following the botched Bay of Pigs invasion. The U.S.S.R.’s Nikita Khrushchev came to the Caribbean isle’s aid with a plan to plant Soviet missiles on Cuban soil. That led to the most dangerous standoff of the Cold War—an exercise in brinkmanship and 11th hour diplomacy that, in TIME’s view, backfired on the Soviets.

Time Magazine November 9, 1962 (The Cuban Missile Crisis and Nikita Khrushchev: The Adventurer) The U.S.’s testy relations with Castro’s Cuba reached a low point following the botched Bay of Pigs invasion. The U.S.S.R.’s Nikita Khrushchev came to the Caribbean isle’s aid with a plan to plant Soviet missiles on Cuban soil. That led to the most dangerous standoff of the Cold War—an exercise in brinkmanship and 11th hour diplomacy that, in TIME’s view, backfired on the Soviets.