Chronological view
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Step 8 of 14 · Tuesday 23 October 1962
The quarantine is signed
The Organization of American States backs the quarantine and Kennedy signs the proclamation. The Aleksandrovsk, carrying nuclear warheads, slips into the port of La Isabela. Khrushchev orders some of the missile ships to turn back.
- The line is pulled in from 800 to 500 nautical miles to give Moscow more time.
- Low-level reconnaissance flights over Cuba begin.
- United States
- Soviet Union
- Submarine
- R-12 range, ~1,900 km
- R-14 range, ~4,000 km
- Planned quarantine line, 500 nmi
On the map
United States
- USS Essex · Arriving on the line
- USS Newport News · Arriving on the line
- USS Enterprise · Windward Passage
Soviet Union
- Aleksandrovsk · Docked at La Isabela
- Kimovsk · Ordered to turn back
- Yuri Gagarin · Ordered to turn back
- Poltava
- Bucharest · Tanker carrying fuel
- B-59 · Foxtrot submarine with a nuclear torpedo
- B-130 · Foxtrot submarine
Ship positions are approximate and show the situation of the day, not exact tracks.