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1962: United Nations
The Cuban crisis of October 1962 threw into sharp relief the role of the UN when the world is threatened by nuclear war. It showed once again that the UN Charter's provisions against the threat of force were not sufficient to prevent situations leading to a head-on confrontation of the two major...
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