Soviet union Quote by Garrett M. Graff

There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“From 1957 through 1961, Khrushchev openly, repeatedly, and bloodcurdlingly threatened the West with nuclear annihilation. Soviet missile capabilities were so far superior to those…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“again concluded that the Soviet Union “with a high degree of confidence” could kill the president, vice president, and all fourteen remaining successors within…

— Garrett M. Graff

“fact, there was no such thing at that time—or later—as a "missile gap," a phrase that Democrats and others flung at the GOP during…

— James T. Patterson

“But there was even more that Khrushchev knew and Kennedy didn’t—secrets that Khrushchev had chosen not to reveal at the time and that remained…

— Daniel Ellsberg

...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far…

— Robert McNamara

President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.

— Colin Powell

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he…

— Bianca Jagger

“The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis came well before the current age of AI, yet computers were in use and technology played a critical role…

— James Rickards

You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the…

— Alexander Haig

Kennedy was president for only 1,037 days, but during his short tenure, he achieved much. At the Cold War's most dangerous hour, he preserved…

— Gretchen Rubin

“By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Eisenhower’s test ban had failed, and the United States and the Soviet Union had both returned…

— Annie Jacobsen