For historians of the Cold War, the R-12 rocket will remain for a long time one of the most outstanding examples of Soviet rocket and space technology. She was at the center of events during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis - the most dangerous confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. This crisis is the object of close attention of historians and political experts trying to understand the decision-making mechanism in the field of defense, crisis management, and in relations between superpowers in general.