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Soviet nuclear weapons
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Soviet Union and weapons of mass destruction.
The global Cold War saw many nuclear crises. During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet nuclear warheads and missiles were briefly stationed in Cuba, often considered the closest call with World War III. Nuclear tensions again crescendoed during the 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict, as Soviet leadership threatened a massive nuclear attack on China. Soviet nuclear weapons were also stationed in the Warsaw Pact countries of Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and Poland, as well as Mongolia and potentially Egypt.