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The Edge of Armageddon (Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy, Khrushchev)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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X COM Won't Meet if One of Our U Twos Got Shot Down

President Kennedy's advisers demanded rejection of the new offer. He predicted that the us. Would lose international support if such a reasonable offer were rejected. If one of our u twos was shot down, x com wouldn't even meet. We'd simply attack, knowing that this could set off world war three. The president had already decided that we would launch an air strike on cuba.

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