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The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the hottest confrontation of the Cold War, bringing the United States and Soviet Union to a near nuclear war. U-2 planes, which flew at a ten-mile altitude, were the only aircraft that could provide President John F. Kennedy with the intelligence and surveillance photographs to challenge Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev's assertion that only defensive missiles were housed in Cuba. Sherman and Tougias (coauthors, The Finest Ho...Log In or Sign Up to Read More