A blockade can be interpreted as an act of war. Why do you think that the United States referred to its act of preventing ships from entering Cuba as a quarantine instead of a blockade?

It was believed that what was called a "quarantine", which in a sense was a naval blockade, [was] called a quarantine because a quarantine had less of a military connotation than "blockade"... it was believed that the quarantine would convey to Khrushchev the determination of the President to see that those missiles

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