Editing Operation Anadyr (section)

== Motivations ==
[[File:Jupiter emplacement.jpg|thumb|A Jupiter surface emplacement similar to the ones in Turkey]]
According to the memoirs of [[Nikita Khrushchev]], the Soviet leader at the time, he and his defense minister, [[Rodion Malinovsky]], were walking on a [[Black Sea]] beach in April 1962 and discussing the threat posed by the short flight time of US [[PGM-19 Jupiter|Jupiter]] missiles deployed in [[Turkey]], which needed about 10 minutes to land in the Soviet Union. The disparity in number of warheads between the Soviet Union and the West was also being discussed when deploying missiles to Cuba took root in Khrushchev's mind as a way to compensate for these disadvantages. As Khrushchev put it, he saw the deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba as "putting one of our hedgehogs down the Americans' trousers".<ref name="Barlow2007">{{harvp|Barlow|2007|pp=157–159}}</ref>