US Jupiter missiles arrive in Turkey
1961 · Event
Fifteen nuclear-tipped American Jupiter missiles begin arriving at Çiğli air base in Turkey — operational by spring 1962, and pointed at the USSR from just across the Black Sea. Khrushchev takes it personally, and starts thinking about a reply in kind.
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