H-DISEC

Our fourth committee is H-DISEC, which is an intermediate-level committee! October 1962. The world held its breath for 13 days straight. An American spy plane spots Soviet nuclear missiles just 150 kilometres from Florida, being placed in Cuba. Kennedy commands for their removal. President Khrushchev denies. Naval blockades, secret implementations and one Soviet submarine commander who almost launched a nuclear torpedo because his crew thought WW3 had begun. We were THIS close to nuclear war. One wrong move and cities like Miami, Moscow, Washington and New York would have been gone in minutes. In the end, the Soviets gave up. Secretly, the U.S. agreed to pull missiles out of Turkey and never invade Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis didn’t just almost end the world, it changed it. It created the red phone hotline, kicked off real arms control talks and proved that even the world leaders could get scared. Disarmament and International Security Committee (DISEC), created as the first of the Main Committees in the General Assembly when the charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945, was alarmed by the global tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis too, leading to a conference being scheduled. In this committee, the delegates will discuss the outcomes of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the concept of Mass Destruction and Weapons of Mass Destruction, resolving ongoing debates about the future of our world. The clock is still ticking. Good luck.