By definition, deterrence refers to a strategy employed by two or more parties with an aim of avoiding a war situation especially a nuclear one adopted by both the US and USSR. It was on Mutual Assured Destruction, where both possessed nuclear tipped missiles, enough to obliterate the other many times over. Tension of the balance confidential for neither could they engage in a nuclear war since it was mutually destructive.

Cold War era had caused the world to come closest to a nuclear conflict in the period of Cuban Missile in 1962. The US learned that the Soviet began to place missiles in Cuba thus posed a threat to the security of the US. Both superpowers were tightening up and using diplomacy and force in their battles. The US responded by. placing an embargo on Cuba in the hope that it would stop further deliveries of the missiles while the Soviets threatened to use nuclear weapons in retaliation.

It was decided through secret diplomacy. The deal was that Soviet Union would withdraw missiles from Cuba if America also withdraw missiles from Turkey. So this crisis proved how unstable the ratio of forces is and that the system of deterrence has a good chance to prevent a nuclear disaster. It therefore shows that even the most dangerous of conflict can be solved diplomatically.