Talk:Cuban Missile Crisis

Soviet warheads on Cuba: 162 vs 158

The article gives two different figures for the number of Soviet nuclear warheads on Cuba at the time of the crisis, and the two figures cannot be reconciled.

In the Resolution section, the article states: "the Soviets already had 162 nuclear warheads on Cuba that the US did not know were there."

In the Nuclear forces section, the article states: "They had already moved 158 warheads to Cuba and between 95 and 100 would have been ready for use if the US had invaded Cuba."

Both passages describe the total number of Soviet nuclear warheads that had been transported to Cuba by October 1962. The figures are 162 and 158 — a discrepancy of four warheads. Since both are stated as precise integer counts of the same stockpile, they cannot both be correct, and the article provides no explanation for the discrepancy. Rome (talk) 23:31, 6 May 2026 (UTC)