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Topic·Cuban Missile Crisis✕clear

Cold War3 quotes

We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth--but neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced...I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace and to stable relations between our two nations...He has an opportunity now to move the world back from the abyss of destruction. — John F. Kennedy · 1962 We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk · 1962 The world stood like a playing card on edge... One looked at the buildings one passed and wondered if one was to see them again. — Norman Mailer · 1963

Cuban Missile Crisis3 quotes

We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth--but neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced...I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace and to stable relations between our two nations...He has an opportunity now to move the world back from the abyss of destruction. — John F. Kennedy · 1962 We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk · 1962 The world stood like a playing card on edge... One looked at the buildings one passed and wondered if one was to see them again. — Norman Mailer · 1963

Nuclear weapons2 quotes

We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk · 1962 The world stood like a playing card on edge... One looked at the buildings one passed and wondered if one was to see them again. — Norman Mailer · 1963

America and the world1 quote

We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth--but neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced...I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace and to stable relations between our two nations...He has an opportunity now to move the world back from the abyss of destruction. — John F. Kennedy · 1962

Brinkmanship1 quote

We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. — Dean Rusk · 1962