“Those sons-of-bitches Russians.”įor much of the next 13 days, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear catastrophe as Kennedy and his advisors tried to force the Soviets, led by Stalin’s successor as Chairman of the Presidium, Nikita Khruschev, to withdraw the missiles. His brother Robert, US attorney general, was no less shocked by the news. “We’re probably going to have to bomb them,” said Kennedy. Bundy had sensational news to impart: the CIA had “hard photographic evidence” that the Soviet Union had secretly placed long-range nuclear weapons on Cuba, just 90 miles from the US mainland. During the morning of October 16, 1962, National Security Advisor Mac Bundy entered the president’s bedroom in the White House and found John F Kennedy still in his pyjamas, while his children watched TV.
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