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I was referring to the 1962 crisis. Russia put lots of missiles into Cuba all aimed at American cities. Kennedy stood firm and Kruschev had to withdraw them.

400km is like the next street when it comes to inter continental ballistic missiles.

Holding our own in WW2 until the Yanks finally joined us (thank to Japan's war mongering) showed that we had the resilience to stand. As for global significance, we have a head of state who is also head of state in 32 countries and is head over 54 countries in total, which is a large...

Cuba & the USA were neighbours.

As someone who lived through the Cuban missile crisis, & have worked with nuclear submarines, I am very happy that we have a nuclear deterrent. We wouldn't use the missiles in a pre-emptive strike, but they do give protection from being attacked. We have a four minute warning system which is...

NATO provides protection for most of the countries you mention.