Acts Quote by Noam Chomsky

“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

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

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.

— Fritz Leiber

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.

— Noam Chomsky

The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning…

— Anonymous

“The most enduring lesson of the Cuban missile crisis is that, in a world with nuclear weapons, a classic military victory is an illusion.…

— Michael Dobbs

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that…

— Jane Smiley

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we…

— Joseph Rotblat

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the…

— Billy Tauzin

“That was the beginning of the Cuban missile crisis—a confrontation between the two giant atomic nations, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., which brought the…

— Robert F. Kennedy

“December 6 a nationally televised test of the Vanguard missile proved deeply embarrassing. The missile rose two feet off the ground and crashed. Press…

— James T. Patterson

I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the…

— Rebecca Harding Davis