Cuban Missile Crisis

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We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth--but neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced...I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace and to stable relations between our two nations...He has an opportunity now to move the world back from the abyss of destruction.

John F. Kennedy

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Cuban Missile Crisis Cold War America and the world

Speaker

John F. Kennedy

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Kennedy, John F. Address on Soviet missiles in Cuba. 22 Oct. 1962, The White House, Washington, DC, USA. Radio and television address.

We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Dean Rusk

On the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 24th, 1962.

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Cuban Missile Crisis Nuclear weapons Brinkmanship Cold War

Author

Dean Rusk

Source

Saturday Evening Post

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Rusk, Dean. Quoted in "In Time of Crisis." Written by Stewart Alsop and Charles Bartlett. The Saturday Evening Post, 8 Dec. 1962. Originally spoken during a private conversation with McGeorge Bundy. ExComm meeting. 14 Oct. 1962, Cabinet Room, West Wing, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

The world stood like a playing card on edge... One looked at the buildings one passed and wondered if one was to see them again.

Norman Mailer

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Cuban Missile Crisis Cold War Nuclear weapons

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Reflecting on the week of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Author

Norman Mailer

Source

The Presidential Papers

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Mailer, Norman. "The Big Bite." The Presidential Papers. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. Originally published in Esquire, Apr. 1963.