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Article: Former U.S., Soviet, Cuban officials offer glimpse into Cuban Missile Crisis.(The Orlando Sentinel)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- October 11, 2002
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HAVANA, Cuba _ At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Soviet submarine commander readied a nuclear attack on a United States destroyer, and another officer began assembling the weapon, according to papers released Friday.
It was only the intervention of a third officer that stopped an attack that almost certainly would have led to an annihilating retaliation by U.S. forces.
The little-known incident, detailed publicly Friday at a conference of U.S., Soviet and Cuban officials during the 1962 crisis, offered a chilling glimpse of how close the superpowers came to a nuclear exchange during the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War.
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