A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.

A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.

John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.

Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.

No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.