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S2 Episode 7 - "Anadyr"

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Kennedy's Plan for a Cuban Uprising

Adley Stevenson was one of the few advisors to JFK who told him to consider things seriously from Khrushchev's perspective. Robert McNamara laid out three paths forward, including a blockade against offensive weapons entering Cuba. The problem for Excom was the Soviets were perfectly within their rights to send them,. and the Cubans were perfectlywithin their rights to accept them.

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