Article: 'I Was Worried As Hell'.(1962 Cuban missile crisis)(Brief Article)

WARS HOT & COLD

After World War II, Averell Harriman noted, Americans would have understandably preferred to "go to the movies and drink Coke." That was not to be, and Churchill saw why: an "Iron Curtain" had descended across Europe, turning our Soviet allies into the enemy. These were the crisis years-we were in a cold war that turned hot in Korea (1950-53) and threatened to do the same in Cuba and a divided Berlin. The ultimate threat: nuclear war. At home passions were high and paranoia about "Reds" was pervasive. Abroad, faraway places became battlegrounds in what John Kennedy called "a long twilight struggle." As the '50s turned into the '60s, one such ...

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