Fidel Castro, the former Cuban leader who died Friday night at the age of 90, once requested that the leader of the Soviet Union consider launching a nuclear strike against the US in the event the country attacked Cuba.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, Castro wrote Nikita Khrushchev a letter detailing his concerns that an attack on Cuba was “imminent.”
He suggested two possible variants — the first being an air attack meant to destroy specific targets, and the second a “full invasion,” though he acknowledged that was less likely. – READ MORE
