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ubamissiles capable of car-
rying nuclear warheads and thereby threatening the United States itself.
Since the affair would quickly end with a great humiliation for the Soviet
Unionthe question has often been askedwhy did the Soviet leader make
this mistake? Obviouslyhe expected that the installation of the missiles
could occur in secret and would confront the United States with a fait ac-
compli. Since the Soviet Union was ringed by American baseshe assumed
the Americans would be in no position to be indignant. We will never know
his motivesbut there are several possibilities. A prominent historian of So-
viet foreign policy suggested that he intended to impress his Chinese com-
rades with his daring.
2He may have wanted to assure Cuban security by
making an attack on the island impossibly costly. He may have regarded
this move as a ?rst step in increasing Soviet in?uence in the Western hemi-
sphere. Of coursethese options were not mutually exclusive.
He obviously did not expect the strong American responseand willing-
ness to take the gravest risk. The difference was that as of 1962American
missile strengthand more importantly American logistical ability so near
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