Quote by Robert F. Kennedy

“The crisis isn’t over. The prospect of nuclear war has never been greater. The United States is so close to invading Cuba that one…

— Bill O'Reilly

I remember very vividly, as a child growing up in England, living through the Cuban Missile Crisis. For a few days, the entire biosphere…

— David Christian

I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause…

— Fidel Castro

“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

When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had a serious…

— Graham T. Allison

But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate…

— David Kay

“The most realistic violent threat to the American people no longer comes out of the sky on the tip of a missile. It now…

— Louis Klarevas

It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on…

— John F. Kennedy

“You know, there was a time at the beginning of the 50's when this nuclear threat hung over the world, but the attitude of…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.”

— Rene Denfeld

“The big event that rips through the heart of things and changes life for everyone, the unforgettable moment when something ends and something else…

— Paul Auster

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