Which major 1962 Cold War confrontation involved the discovery of Soviet ballistic missiles placed in Cuba, leading to a naval quarantine (blockade) by the United States?

💡 Explanation:

The Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962) is widely regarded as the most dangerous single confrontation of the Cold War, bringing the two superpowers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, closest to nuclear war over the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.