Armageddon Postponed? Fifty Years After the Cuban Missile Crisis | Commentary | Tomorrow's World

On October 22, 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy told his nation and the world: “It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.” For a time, many were almost certain that a devastating attack, and response, would come.

Armageddon Postponed? Fifty Years After the Cuban Missile Crisis | Commentary | Tomorrow's World