“[T]hey are not going to permit nuclear weapons to be used against the United States from Cuba unless they’re going to be used from every place.”

It was what they all had been thinking. If the Soviets were serious about using the atomic arms they had smuggled into Cuba, we were only one step away from a worldwide nuclear war.

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