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1962: Military Affairs
The most significant military development of the year 1962 was the implicit Soviet acknowledgment of United States strength in nuclear armaments, as the Kremlin bowed to a sternly-worded U.S. demand for the removal of Soviet offensive weapons from the island of Cuba.
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