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S2 Episode 7 - "Anadyr"

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Kennedy's Plan to Bomb and Invade Cuba

Kennedy meets with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and they've come in with a plan why we have to bomb and invade. Kennedy says wait a minute before you get into that let me tell you my point of view. If we invade Cuba it gives Khrushchev the perfect excuse to invade West Berlin if we blockade Cuba I am also worried that it givesKhrushchev the opportunity to blockade West Berlin Curtis bombs away on October 19th, 1962.

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