USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. Chairman Khrushchev replies indignantly to President Kennedy’s October 23 letter stating in part: “You, Mr. President, are not declaring a quarantine, but rather are setting forth an ultimatum and threatening that if we do not give in to your demands you will use force.

Detailed explanation-2: -On October 26, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev responded to the quarantine by sending a long and rather disjointed letter to Kennedy offering a deal: Soviet ships bound for Cuba would “not carry any kind of armaments” if the United States vowed never to invade Cuba.

Detailed explanation-3: -After many long and difficult meetings, Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cuba. The aim of this “quarantine, ” as he called it, was to prevent the Soviets from bringing in more military supplies. He demanded the removal of the missiles already there and the destruction of the sites.

Detailed explanation-4: -On 28 October 1962, Nikita Khrushchev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, sends a letter to the US President, John F. Kennedy, in which he justifies the purely dissuasive objective of the missiles supplied by the USSR to the Cuban regime.

Detailed explanation-5: -I propose: We, for our part, will declare that our ships, bound for Cuba, will not carry any kind of armaments. You would declare that the United States will not invade Cuba with its forces and will not support any sort of forces which might intend to carry out an invasion of Cuba.