Cuban Missile Crisis Playing Cards NPCC

Cuban Missile Crisis Playing Cards A March 2021 Pip Box Club Selection - For more information on joining Pip Box Club click here This deck commemorates the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, when the world was at the brink of a full scale nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union over nuclear missile deployments in Cuba. 22 Oct 1962 Cuba EXCOMM (Executive Committee of the National Security Council) The world has never before nor since been so close to the precipice of such a global nuclear catastrophe. And hopefully never will again. The deck commemorates the key players in the Cold War confrontation in the aces of the deck (President John F Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Soviet 1st Secretary Nikita Khrushchev and Cuban 1st Secretary Fidel Castro).  The jokers captures two key elements central to the nuclear confrontation: the U-2 spy plane which revealed the Soviet's plans to station nuclear missiles in Cuba, and the mobile missile launchers that