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This Happened — October 22: Kennedy’s Cuban Missile Crisis Address

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Post date October 22, 2024

Updated October 22, 2024 at 11:30 a.m. U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that American reconnaissance planes discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, marking the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis on this day in 1962. What did President Kennedy reveal in his televised address? In his address, President Kennedy revealed that American reconnaissance planes […]

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Why Putin’s Threats Are More Dangerous Than The Cuban Missile Crisis

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Post date September 27, 2022

Vladmir Putin is "making Russia not only the "Empire of Evil" but also the "Empire of Madness". ANTIPOLYGON YOUTUBE

Unlike the U.S.-Soviet showdown in 1962, Vladimir Putin’s allusions to his nuclear arsenal come with no sense of rules or limits, and with a more distant memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.