Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Schlesinger, masanin tarihi kuma mai ba da shawara ga Kennedy, ya gaya wa National Public Radio a cikin hira a ranar 16 ga Oktoba, 2002 cewa Castro ba ya son makamai masu linzami, amma Khrushchev ya matsa wa Castro ya karɓa. Castro bai yi farin ciki da ra'ayin ba, amma Hukumar Juyin Juya Halin Cuba ta yarda da su, duka don kare Cuba daga harin Amurka da kuma taimakawa Tarayyar Soviet. Schlesinger ya yi imanin cewa lokacin da aka cire makamai masu linzami, Castro ya fi fushi da Khrushchev fiye da Kennedy saboda Khrushchev bai tuntubi Castro ba kafin ya yanke shawarar cire su. Ko da yake Castro ya fusata da Khrushchev, ya shirya kan buga Amurka tare da sauran makamai masu linzami idan mamayewar tsibirin ya faru. A farkon 1992, an tabbatar da cewa sojojin Soviet a Cuba, lokacin da rikicin ya ɓarke, sun riga sun sami makaman nukiliya na nukiliya don makaman rokoki da masu jefa bom na Il-28. Castro ya bayyana cewa zai ba da shawarar amfani da su idan Amurka ta mamaye duk da cewa an lalata Cuba. Ana iya cewa, ba a san lokacin da ya fi hatsari a cikin rikicin ba har zuwa taron rikicin makamai masu linzami na Cuba a Havana, a watan Oktoba 2002. Tare da halartar tsofaffin tsofaffin rikice-rikicen, duk sun koyi cewa a ranar 27 ga Oktoba, 1962, USS Beale ya bi diddigin kuma ya sauke sigina na zurfin ruwa (girman grenades na hannu) a kan B-59, Soviet Project 641 (NATO mai suna Foxtrot) jirgin ruwa. Ba tare da sanin Amurka ba, an dauke shi da makamin nukiliya mai nauyin kiloton 15. Ba tare da iska ba, jirgin ruwan Soviet ya kewaye shi da jiragen ruwa na Amurka kuma yana bukatar ya fito. Wata gardama ta ɓarke tsakanin jami'ai uku a cikin B-59, ciki har da kyaftin jirgin ruwa na Valentin Savitsky, jami'in siyasa Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov, da Mataimakin kwamandan brigade Kyaftin na 2 (Kwamandan Rundunar Sojan Ruwa na Amurka) Vasily Arkhipov. Savitsky ya yi fushi sosai kuma ya umarci cewa an yi amfani da torpedo na nukiliya a cikin jirgin. Bayanai sun banbanta game da ko Arkhipov ya shawo kan Savitsky kada ya kai harin ko kuma Savitsky da kansa ya yanke shawarar cewa...  Tambaya: Ta wace hanyar watsa labarai aka bayyana cewa Khrushchev ya matsa wa Castro ya karbi makamai masu linzami?
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