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Cuban Missile Crisis  

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  • The events of October 1962 are commonly regarded as the most dangerous moment in human history when, had all-out nuclear war occurred, hundreds of millions of people would have been killed. Indeed, the environmental and climatic consequences could have led to the extinction of human life in the northern hemisphere. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Cuban Missile Crisis]

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