śWe were eyeball to eyeball,” Dean Rusk said to McGeorge Bundy at the crucial moment of the Cuban Missile Crisis, “and I think the other guy just blinked.” It was Wednesday, 24 October 1962 and the first Soviet ships had approached the American naval vessels enforcing Kennedy’s blockade of Cuba, and as the world held...
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