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Cuban Missile Crisis 1962: Conclusion [Letters Exchanged Between JFK and Khrushchev on October 28, 1962]

CHAIRMAN KHRUSHCHEV TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY OCTOBER 28, 1962 “Dear Mr. President: I have received your message of 27 October. I express my satisfaction and thank…

Intelligence and ‘MAD’ Management (1962 – 1977): Another Excerpt From “U.S.-Russian Exceptionalism: Intelligence, MAD, and Détente”

During the horrid thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, had President Kennedy not been made privy to proper and punctual intelligence,…

An Excerpt From My Magisterial Thesis: “U.S.-Russian Exceptionalism: Intelligence, MAD, and Détente”

  Conceptualization: the Quasi-inherent ‘Supra-international Balance of Power’ of MAD Post-Mutually-Assured-Destruction (MAD), it was no longer a question of tactic or strategy that molded the…

Ukraine Crisis [Part IX: It Is in the United States and Europe’s Best Strategic Interest That Russia Shouldn’t “Lose” in Ukraine]

What I find most disconcerting at present, almost seven months into the war in Ukraine, is the popular oblivion to the actual peril and the…