The closest the world came to war during the Cold War was when the Soviet Union placed missiles on the Caribbean island of
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The closest the world came to war during the Cold War was when the Soviet Union placed missiles on the Caribbean island of
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The correct answer is Cuba.
During the Cold War, particularly in 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred when the Soviet Union secretly placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S. mainland. This led to a tense 13-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, bringing the two superpowers closer to nuclear war than at any other time during the Cold War.