“There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
Author: John F. Kennedy – Thirty-fifth President of the USA.
The Cuban Missile Crisis.
The,Cold War’ between the United States and the Soviet Union almost turned into a real war in October 1962 when an American spy plane secretly flew over Cuba and took pictures of military construction sites. President Kennedy saw from these pictures that the Russians were building nuclear missile launchers in Cuba, only 90 miles from Florida. President Kennedy faced a very difficult decision. Should he ignore the missiles even though they were very close to the United States? Should he use force to remove the missiles, even at the risk of starting a nuclear war?
