This historical nonfiction book explains and describes the events of a geopolitical conflict between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. It all started after World War 2 ended from the Siege of Stalingrad to the Fall of Berlin...the Allies took down the Axis powers and their regimes. Now that the axis powers were no more the two countries who were once allies turned on each other once they became the two global superpowers of the world. In the year 1947 the cold war had begun...a chain events that must be stopped. Tensions started to arise when the United States found out that the Soviets were transporting ballistic missiles towards Cuba since they formed a communist alliance with Cuba. The United States saw this as an act of aggression because the missiles the Soviets were transporting to Cuba were capable of reaching the US mainland. The United States of America already had enough to worry about such as their intervention in the Vietnam War. Many in the US favored aggressive responses towards the Soviet Union but others like the secretary of defense Robert McNamara favored a naval blockade against incoming Soviet ships that were arriving to Cuba. In 1962 Both global superpower leaders John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev agreed to settle tensions with each other by Nikita ordering to dismantle all missile bases in Cuba. The world was in relief with this crisis ending since other countries and organizations such as Great Britain, France, and NATO were going to intervene with the international conflict. The author Heather Lehr Wagner wrote this book in order to inform young adults about the Cuban Missile Crisis and why it was significant to world history. “Our struggle against Communism throughout the world was far more than physical.” - (Robert F. Kennedy 29)