[gusopol3]

isn’t the historical record established that JFK backed down and pulled strategic assets out of Turkey? I think they were supposed to be somewhat obsolescent missiles, but the Soviets were glad to be rid of them.

[RayChuang88]

JFK could afford to dismantle the Jupiter missiles armed with the W49 1.45 MT warhead because by 1962, the US Navy's George Washington class submarines were in wide service, and unlike the Jupiter missiles (which required a complicated launch sequence due to the use of liquid oxygen as oxidizer fuel), the Polaris missiles were out at sea and could be fired with only a few minutes' notice.

[vertolet]

You’re right.
Kennedy agreed to remove all missiles set in Turkey on the border of the Soviet Union in exchange for Khrushchev removing all missiles in Cuba.