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@AFAIK
Because you're reading and hearing about it from a western perspective, as in from the US point of view.
From a Russian or Belorussian perspective, its the Turkish Jupiter missiles crisis. And the Cuban missiles were the response to it.
The "crisis" in eyes of westerners began when missiles reached Cuba not when they reached Turkey.
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Cuba was too close to America, while Turkey was far away from Russia with a flight time of about an hour to the Soviet Union. Turkey was also prevented from firing some nuclear missiles at the Soviet Union without permission by coded switches. In 1974, the United States further cut the arming wires of every nuclear weapon stored in Turkey, rendering them inoperable, which shows that Turkey was not even a trusted ally of the United States which could threaten the Soviet Union.
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@ThirdTerm
Actually the soviet union was bordering Turkey, so it wasn't far away. Jupiter missiles also could reach Moscow from Turkey, and covered a significant portion of the western half of the soviet union where most of the major cities were.
For the coding system;
1- the codes until the end of the cold war were 0000.
2- The cold war was between the USSR and NATO, not between the US and the USSR alone. And NATO have a central command. Turkey is a member of NATO since the early 50s.

Which is why the Cuban missiles were a response to the Jupiter missiles in Turkey, thus the crisis began in Turkey. And though the crisis in eyes of Americans began in Cuba, in eyes of the soviet union it began in Turkey.
The whole thing of deploying nuclear missiles in other countries close to each of your enemies became a thing because of the development of missile defense systems, which though primitive back then, could block an ICBM a good percentage of the times thus pushing major powers to deliver nukes in smaller missiles and from a closer range to make the delivery guaranteed.
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