In the text conversation Ye wrote: “I told you this means war. What is the meaning of text slang NFS? Strange internet acronym explored.TikTok is obsessed with Big Bear Bald Eagles Jackie and Shadow.The fashion mogul’s Instagram account was restricted later that day after he posted screenshots of a text conversation with rapper Sean Combs, also known as P Diddy or Puff Daddy. The alleged reference to Defcon 3 seemingly follows more warfare-themed comments by the Donda artist posted on Instagram on Friday, October 7. Each bomber carries nuclear weapons, each one has a target and each one is ready to launch at a moment's notice.Kanye West was already locked out of his Instagram account Over Europe, American bombers are in the air 24 hours a day. US Strategic Air Command is ordered to Defcon (Defence Condition) 2, the highest level it has ever reached. The biggest US troop invasion force since D-Day, gathers in Florida in preparation. President John F Kennedy speaks to the American people, announcing the blockade and challenging Khrushchev to remove the weapons.
Photos taken by US spy plane missions show evidence of ballistic nuclear missiles, transporters and bunkers on Cuban soil.ĮxComm (the Executive Committee of the National Security Council) meets at the Whitehouse to debate how to respond to the threat.Įventually the decision is made to make a public declaration of a naval blockade of the island in order to prevent further missiles from being delivered. It was a game of political brinkmanship, but to this day remains the closest we have ever got to nuclear annihilation. In 1961, a CIA-sponsored invasion attempt to overthrow the communist Cuban leader Fidel Castro had failed miserably in the Bay of Pigs.Ĭastro wanted to be defended against a full-scale US invasion but Khrushchev's main reason for placing the missiles with his communist comrade was that there were American missiles stationed in Turkey, close to the USSR. The USA already had a fractious relationship with the island state of Cuba before the crisis. In the words of the then US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, "We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked." Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev announced on Radio Moscow that the USSR would be removing the nuclear missiles it had stationed on the Caribbean island of Cuba, roughly 90 miles from Florida. On 28 October 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis came to an end.
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