Khrushchev agreed to pull the missiles out of Cuba
For thirteen days, American cities sat inside range of Soviet nuclear missiles ninety miles from Florida. On October 28, 1962, Premier Nikita Khrushchev publicly agreed to dismantle and remove them from Cuba. It was his answer to President Kennedy's quarantine, and it ended the standoff that had begun on October 14, when U-2 flights spotted the sites under construction. The announcement came one day after Soviet forces shot down an American U-2 over Cuba, killing Major Rudolf Anderson Jr. Kennedy got the public pledge he needed, but the Jupiter missile trade that made it possible stayed secret for years.
Kennedy publicly pledged not to invade Cuba and privately agreed to pull American Jupiter missiles from Turkey, a trade kept secret from the public for decades. The crisis also produced the Moscow–Washington hotline, built as a direct teletype link between Washington and Moscow.
