The Cuban Missile Crisis is considered to be one of the closest times when the world has ever come to the nuclear war. There are different causes which led to the world to such kind of confrontation which was ultimately the product of hostility along with secrecy between the different nations. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the time of the heightened confrontation between Soviet Union, Cuba and United States of America during the time of cold war.

During the cold war phase, United States and Soviet Union were largely prevented from engaging in the direct kind of combat with one another and this was being caused due to the fear of mutually assured destruction. In the year 1962, Cuban Missile Crisis brought the entire world perilously close to the nuclear war.

The major results of the Cuban Missile Crisis were the fact that the Americans believed that Soviet Union had equalized United States nuclear capability aspect. The major and immediate effects were the different missiles were being withdrawn from Cuba and United States secretly agreed to withdraw their missiles from Turkey. The other effect of Cuban Missile Crisis was to prove or test diplomacy as well as bargaining powers of both Kennedy and Khrushchev and the other effect was relating to the spy satellite programs as due to the effectiveness of surveillance as well as proof positive that the missiles were on the bases of Cuba.