Trump’s Removal Is Taking Too Long
On October 14, 1962, an American U-2 spy plane flew over Cuba and took hundreds of pictures of military installations on the island. The next day, the CIA determined that these bases were actually nuclear-missile sites, set up under our noses by the Soviet Union and discovered by pure luck.
On October 22, President John F. Kennedy enacted a blockade around Cuba and addressed the nation, and the world, on television, saying he was ready to take military action if necessary. The next day, he raised the U.S. military’s alert status to DEFCON 2, one step short of actual nuclear war. The Cuban missile crisis was under way.
Over the next few days,, and Soviet submarine commanders, on their way to Cuba, were authorized to use at sea. At one point, Kennedy estimated the odds of a nuclear holocaust at “somewhere between one in three and even.”
