Another way the Cuban Missile War could have started?

There are a number of ways a similar crisis could have occurred. Nuclear policy during the Eisenhower years and as a result of the thinking of very hawkish generals was rather one size fits all in terms of reacting to major aggression with full atomic exchange, and thinking force or the potential for war would intimidate the enemy into having a level head in their own actions, thus preventing nuclear war. Ike himself advised Kennedy to attack Cuba, and that the Russians would back down and not attack West Berlin. We now know that was false. The whole thinking was ripe for a quagmire situation between the superpowers, where they had pressured one another into action but neither felt able to back down. It could have occurred at sometime anywhere in the world.
 
There were Several incidents in October 1962
Here the Worst cases

October 24, A soviet R-7 rocket try to launch but failed the upper stage exploded and debris rain down over North America
The NORAD Command Post files and log on that incident are still today classified.

October 27, A U2 had error in Navigation systen and enter Soviet Air Space by Mistake
The Pilot manage get back Alaska but follow by Soviet Airforce
who got reception by USAF fighters and interceptors at Border, Some of US interceptors carry a nuclear Air-air missile.

October 26, the USAF conduct TWO Unannounced ICBM test direction USSR

October 28, Two false alert of soviet ICBM entering US airspace,
One at Moorestown AFB do A test tape simulating a ICBM launch, result in overlay in Radar system real scan.
In the Laredo radar warning site (just in operation) a unexperienced Radar operator miss took a Satellite for a soviet ICBM entering US airspace,
He contactad NOARD of this "Attack" lucky they double checkt with BMEWS.

Other potential incidents

US Base in Germany were put on High Alert and double security were placed
Because a study from Bundeswehr, the Paper from 1960 proposed a very radical solution for West Germany in crisis like that
Bundeswehr troops had to raid US Bases obtain Nuclear Warheads and there delivery system and conduct a preventive nuclear strike on Soviet forces in East Germany.
that study is real, unclear for moment, if German Government of Conrad Adenauer even consider this madness, because some files went "missing" or "fallen accidentally in a paper shredder"

Kennedy Health
JFK had the Addison's disease, the Treatment in that time were a cocktail of drugs included hormones, animal organ cells, steroids, vitamins, enzymes, and amphetamines,
the potential side effects included hyperactivity, hypertension, impaired judgment, nervousness, and mood swings.
Next to that he got shots by Max "Dr. Feelgood" Jacobson for JFK Back pain, his Miracle Mixture contain massive dose steroids and amphetamines
Lucky the White House physicians figured out, What "Dr. Feelgood" injecting into president and denied access to Kennedy, BEFOR the Cuban Missile Crisis start

Some time i wonder why we are still alive...
 
One possible way the Cuban Missile Crisis could have gone hot was put forth by Robert L. O'Connell in his story The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust, part of the What Ifs? of American History anthology - that of Soviet submarines armed with nuclear torpedoes lurking offshore Cuba. The captains of the subs had authority to use said nuclear torpedoes if their hulls were breached by enemy fire (depth charges), as happened in the story.
Not only that, unknown to US intelligence the Soviets had not only had delivered warheads for their SS-4 MRBM's, but they had brought along around 100 tactical nuclear weapons for their unguided rockets, cruise missiles, bombers and diesel-electric submarines in Cuba. But even worse, unlike the SS-4's, the control of which was provided through elements of the KGB, there were no such parallel regulations on the tactical nukes, and local commanders could activate them on their own authority.
If, like in the story, a Soviet submarine destroyed an American Navy vessel with a nuclear torpedo after it's hull was breached by depth charges, the Americans would have launched both airstrikes and an invasion of Cuba, and if any of the Cuban missile batteries survived the bombings, just as in the story, the commanders undoubtably would have launched nukes at the United States, thus setting off WW3.
 
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