Fidel Castro once asked the leader of the Soviet Union to annihilate the US with nuclear weapons

TASS via Associated Press Fidel Castro, the former Cuban leader who died Friday night at the age of 90, once requestedthat the leader of the Soviet Union consider launching a nuclear strike against the US in the event the country attacked Cuba. During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, Castro wroteNikita Khrushchev a letterdetailing his concerns that an attack on Cuba was "imminent." He suggested two possible variants — the first being an air attack meant to destroy specific targets, an...