A history lesson we have yet to learn: the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the threat of nuclear war in 2022

Are today’s leaders of nuclear-armed states as capable of stepping back from Armageddon as the occupants of the Kennedy White House, the Khrushchev Kremlin, and the commander of a Russian submarine fleet off the coast of Florida in 1962?

The Kennedy White House Executive Committee during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Millions of lives would depend on the president’s decision. Photograph courtesy of the White House, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

Opinion

BY JIM CRESKEY

October 20, 2022

OTTAWA—Four men are seated in a room, three of them share a couch, one sits in a rocking chair. They are all attempting to smile for the photographer—and barely succeeding. The man in the rocking chair, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who is capable of flashing the kind of ...

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