The world marks the 50th anniversary this month of a deal to end the high-stakes US-USSR standoff that avoided nuclear disaster.
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Photos: Cuban missile crisis turns 50
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John Hughes, US special assistant to the director of defense intelligence, conducts a military briefing for the news media showing the absence of Soviet missiles in Cuba with an aerial map during the Cuban missile crisis Feb. 6, 1963 in Washington, DC.
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US President John F. Kennedy speaks during a televised speech to the nation about the nuclear standoff between the US and Russia Feb. 11, 1962 in Washington, DC.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro with USSR's Nikita Khrushchev during a four-week official visit to Moscow.
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A P2V Neptune US patrol plane flies over a Soviet freighter during the Cuban missile crisis in this 1962 photograph.
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Cuba's President of the Republic Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado addresses the United Nations General Assembly to denounce US aggression against his country during the Cuban missile crisis Oct. 8, 1962 in New York City.
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In London, protesters stage a sit-in against war over the Cuban missile crisis Oct. 24, 1962.
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A spy photo of a medium range ballistic missile base in San Cristobal, Cuba, with labels detailing various parts of the base, is shown October 1962.
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A Cuban soldier paints a SAM-2 missile deployed during the missile crisis of 1962 at Morro Cabana complex, on Oct. 11, 2012 in Havana. Cuba is marking the 50th anniversary of the missile crisis.
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Cuban farmer Alexis Teston cleans a marble plaque marking the place where a Russian R-12 theater missile was deployed during the 1962 missile crisis, in San Cristobal, Mayabeque province, Cuba.
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US actor Kevin Costner, left, meets with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, right, after a conference on the Cuban missile crisis April 10, 2001 in Havana, Cuba. Costner and Castro later watched a private screening of Costner's film "Thirteen Days," which deals with the subject of the 1962 standoff.
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