>>also the Nuclear missiles in Cuba where a response to US missiles in Turkey and the deal was that both here removed.

Pre-1965 the USSR had only 20 missiles capable of reaching the US from USSR soil, so putting shorter-range missiles 90 miles from Florida would have seemed a marvelous idea.

FWIW, Castro didn't want the missiles as he believed it made him look like a Soviet puppet, but he was incentivized/persuaded that the US might invade again at any moment and nukes would be a fabulous deterrent.

Also FWIW, none of this could happen today. Wikileaks would reveal both the Jupiter and Anadyr missiles along with Kennedy's and Khrushchev's entire communication record, showing people of every nation that it's not entirely those other demons' fault. As this trend accelerates, Trump is going to have to be the most open/honest President in history- though the "get out of jail free" card he granted himself to shun the MSM at will, may turn out to be the craftiest strategy yet.