Dissident Voice 17-11-13 Original post Cached copy 55 Years After: Political Legacies of the Cuban Missile Crisis Dissident Voice - 2017-11-13 - Original post - Cached copy The last two weeks of October 1962, 55 years ago, was the closest the world has come so far to a widespread nuclear exchange in what has become known as the “Cuban Missile Crisis.” The First Use of Nuclear Weapons