Putin's Threat of Nuclear War: Former CIA Moscow Chief of Station Rolf Mowatt-Larssen
Intelligence Matters
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The Key Lesson Learned From the Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK said nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis and I think we're just still appreciating how strong Kennedy's leadership was, says Michael Kofman. "The stakes of this escalation may sound just like another scale of destruction, but in fact it's that humanity itself is placed in the scope," he adds.
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