Cuban missile crisis

Eric Zuesse The former U.S. Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, who used to be a regular (and often the best) commentator on Fox News, has become deeply worried by the U.S. perpetual-warfare, MIC-(military-industrial-complex)-controlled, and (as he has argued) anti-U.S.-Constitutional, foreign polices of aggression. America was, in fact, founded by people who waged the American Revolution and […]

Eric Zuesse At 22:04 in a 10 October 2022 “Democracy Now!” fake-‘alternative news’ TV show, Noam Chomsky used the phrase “Putin’s criminal invasion of Ukraine” as-if America’s NATO had not forced Putin to do this in order to prevent America’s nuclear missiles from being posted in a NATO Ukraine on Russia’s border around 300 miles […]

Eric Zuesse During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the central issue was how short America’s available reaction-time to a Soviet blitz nuclear attack would be and whether it would be too short for America to respond before America’s leader, JFK, would be able to press the nuclear button and retaliate against such a Soviet nuclear […]

There are not too many cool heads in Congress in the United States these days. Nor are there cool heads in the US’ news media outlets, for the most part. The American people are steeped in a diet of “Ukraine is always good, Russia and Putin are always bad.” This narrative is so well-developed in […]

For some time in various blogs but more importantly in interviews dating back some time (almost a decade now) I've been advancing the hypothesis […]
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Donald Trump was kept in the dark about a possible U.S. nuclear response to a Russian cyber-weapon attack. The U.S. has now ramped up offensive cyber-warfare against Russia’s power grid, putting Trump in a deep bind, says Caitlin Johnstone. By…Read more →

I'm old enough to remember the Cuban missile crisis. For those few days in 1962, the family dinner table was tense and the air…
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The last two weeks of October 1962, 55 years ago, was the closest the world has come so far to a widespread nuclear exchange in what has become known as the “Cuban Missile Crisis.” 
The First Use of Nuclear Weapons

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Following the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, President Kennedy announced he would ban the testing of nuclear weapons. He called for an end to the Cold War and the removal of troops from South Vietnam. Kennedy also put an end to the Pentagon's plan to invade Cuba and refused to provide air support for the Bay of Pigs invasion. It was the last straw when he forced the resignation of Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA. The National Security State said Kennedy had to go. They said he was a threat to national security.