Cuban Missile Crisis
- an international crisis in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the US and the USSR. When the US discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, President John F. Kennedy demanded their removal and announced a naval blockade of the island; the Soviet leader Khrushchev acceded to the US demands a week later.古巴导弹危机（1962年10月发生的一次国际危机, 是美国和前苏联之间最接近核战争边缘的一次对抗; 美国发现苏联在古巴的核导弹后, 肯尼迪总统要求将其撤离并宣布对该岛进行海军封锁; 一星期后赫鲁晓夫答应了美国的要求）。