AI: John F. Kennedy 🇺🇸🦅, Nikita Khrushchev 🇷🇺☭, and Fidel Castro 🇨🇺⭐: The Cuban Missile Crisis ☢️🚀🌎 — October 20-28 1962 (Part II)
“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 by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.” — John F. Kennedy 🇺🇸🦅 (October 22)
“[The United States is] pushing mankind toward the abyss of a world nuclear-missile war.” — Nikita Khrushchev 🇷🇺☭ (October 24)
“Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium- and intermediate-range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no? Don’t wait for the translation! Yes or no?” — Adlai Stevenson 🇺🇸🌐 (October 25)
“[What if] the Soviet Union would agree to dismantle and remove the missiles under UN inspection… and the United States would pledge publicly not to invade Cuba?” — Aleksandr Feklissov 🕵️♂️🇷🇺📡(October 26)
We’re eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked.” — Dean Rusk 🇺🇸📜(October 28)