'Aaw come on, Humberto!' Some amigos retort. 'Gen. LeMay was a serious war-monger and NUTCASE!—the model for Gen. Ripper in Dr Strangelove! Are you saying we shoulda started a worldwide nuclear war ...
Oct. 10, 2002 — -- Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev lied to President John F. Kennedy about the Soviet placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba 40 years ago, Cuban President Fidel Castro told ABCNEWS ...
Foreword / Peter Almond -- Introduction. Armageddon in retrospect: "carrying the fire" of the Cuban Missile Crisis into the twenty-first century -- Cast of characters. Three leaders/three crises -- ...
After the heady experience came headachy doubts and morning-after questions. Hardly had Nikita Khrushchev promised to back away from his Cuba missiles adventure than the Kennedy Administration started ...
Americans -- Russians -- Cubans -- "Eyeball to eyeball" -- "Till hell freezes over -- Intel -- Nukes -- Strike first -- Hunt for the "Grozny" -- Shootdown -- "Some ...
We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course" (BookBaby), veteran journalist Marvin Kalb writes ...
The President had not held a press conference for ten weeks. A month had passed since his last major public pronouncement about Cuba. Thus, when Kennedy finally faced newsmen last week, there were ...