NOT the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Other Secret Nuclear Rockets in America’s Backyard Nuclear-armed FKR (frontovaya krylataya raketa/front-line winged rocket) cruise missiles, whose deployments in Cuba were so secret that the U.S. Air Force failed to detect them. This particular group had the mission of destroying the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo. It was entirely unknown to the US at the time, but the infamous Cuban missile crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war did not actually end with the agreement between the US and Soviet Union in October 1962. Another second secret crisis instead brewed … Continue reading NOT the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Other Secret Nuclear Rockets in America’s Backyard