Although the untied states criticized the soviet construction of missiles in other countries in what two nations did the US keep missikes in a buffer zone against the soviet union

Turkey

Italy a NATO country.

Explanation:

During the cold war, the US criticized the Soviet Union's construction of missiles in other countries. But the US put nuclear missiles in Turkey and in NATO countries, Italy being one of them. The presidency John F. Kennedy used these missiles to bargain for the end of the Cuban missiles crises in the year 1962. He agreed to remove nuclear missiles from Turkey if the Soviet Union removed nuclear missiles from Cuba.

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