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The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation.
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And we will all go together when we go/ What a comforting fact that is to know/ Universal bereavement/ An inspiring achievement/ Yes, we will all go together when we go Tom Lehrer song, 1959
We were truly on the verge of war Nikita Krushchev, 30 October 1962
Nobody wants to go through what we went through in Cuba very often John F. Kennedy, December 1962
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for HARRY HASTINGS who loves Latin America and its people so much
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Four years ago my friend Robert Harris wrote a novel entitles The Second Sleep, set in a primitive medieval community in south-west England. (Introduction)
Just before midnight on 16 April 1961, five rustbucket transport vessels dropped anchor two thousand yards off the coast of Cuba, to launch one of the most disastrous military operations in history. (Prologue)
It was hot.
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The world cannot be assured that we shall always be so fortunate as to see national leaders display comparable wisdom. (Introduction)
John F. Kennedy might have said the same about Cuba, a small neighbouring country with which, for some good and at least as much ill, his presidency would forever be coupled. (Prologue)
Yet, beyond constructively confronting climate change, our planet's best hope of surviving the twenty-first century relies upon an imperative: that no national leader shows themself deficient in the fear which must lie at the heart of wisdom, and which was indispensable to a peaceful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation.
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