...were rapidly installing strategic missile bases in Cuba. On October 22 President Kennedy announced a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba and called on Premier Khrushchev to remove the missiles and bombers already delivered. At the same...

...which, he warned, "may be only the beginning," that he had ordered to be taken immediately: 1. "... a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba." All ships bound for Cuba, "from whatever nation or port, will, if found to contain cargoes of offensive...