Quote Originally Posted by Brenus
“Yes, what a bunch of warmongers we were, not wanting nuclear warheads parked 30 miles off our coast.” And the fact you had nuclear war head at 5 km from their borders never occurred to you? (Turkey)
Cuba and Florida are roughly 90 miles apart.

I sincerely doubt we'd have stationed missile less than 5 klicks from the Soviet border -- too close and too tempting for a commando raid/surprise attack.

Yes, we did have missiles in Turkey at the time of the Cuban Crisis. Yes they were withdrawn shortly afterwards. Yes some have made the argument that this was a "de facto" arrangement between the governments, though no concrete proof has surfaced. It is known that the missiles did annoy the Soviets.