Nuclear Crisis - A History of the Cold War

Krushchev sent intermediate-range missiles capable of destroying Washington, Atlanta and a circle in the United States. He also sent tactical, short-range tactical nuclear weapons which could have destroyed an American invasion force if we had actually gone so far as to invade. We learned that in the beginning the Soviet generals had permission to use these in the event of an attack on their own troops. There was no physical constraint. If the Americans had landed on Cuba in a massive invasion there was no way Moscow could have stopped them even though it ordered them not to useThese weapons. One of the Soviet submarines which was approaching the quarantine blockade line had a nuclear torpedo ready to use. And at one point