Oct 22: JFK goes on national TV and announces U.S. quarantine of shipping to Cuba…as nuclear missiles supplied by the Soviets have been discovered on the island after US analysis of photographs by U–2 spy plane over flights of Cuba.
With the US blockade in–place and authorized to use small explosives to impose its blockade, at 10:25 A.M. Oct 24, the approaching Soviet ships go “dead in the water”—as the Soviets have “blinked.”