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Radio Moscow broadcasts that the Soviet Union will dismantle the missiles and ship them home in return for a US pledge not to invade Cuba. The quarantine stays in place while the removal is checked.

• The removal of the Jupiter missiles from Turkey stays a secret part of the deal.
• Castro, left out of the talks, is furious.

Khrushchev backs down (28 October 1962)

A U-2 is shot down over eastern Cuba and Major Rudolf Anderson is killed. US destroyers drop practice depth charges on submarine B-59, whose officers argue over firing a nuclear torpedo until Vasily Arkhipov refuses. A second Khrushchev letter asks for US missiles to leave Turkey.

• B-59 surfaces among US ships near the USS Randolph group.
• The tanker Grozny stops at the line.
• Robert Kennedy secretly tells Ambassador Dobrynin the Jupiter missiles in Turkey will go.

Black Saturday (27 October 1962)

After the Soviet Union agrees to take its Il-28 bombers out of Cuba as well, Kennedy lifts the quarantine. Strategic Air Command steps down from DEFCON 2.

• The missiles were shipped out in early November; US planes counted them on deck.
• The Jupiter missiles left Turkey by April 1963.

The quarantine ends (20 November 1962)

A 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. The US answered with a naval quarantine of the island; the crisis ended when Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles in return for a US pledge not to invade Cuba and, secretly, the removal of US missiles from Turkey.

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