Anyone who thinks nukes make war impossible should read deeply about the Cuban Missile Crisis. They don't understand how close we came.
@IanDunt because the soviets would never ever have thought of putting any other kind of missiles on Cuba, would they?!
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@JuliaHB1 My argument is not that states are lovely and never attack on another. So this is not really a useful observation.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@robertshrimsley@IanDunt and when he realised Kennedy wasn't....? -
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@robertshrimsley@IanDunt yes, and the costs of getting that assumption wrong was, in the end, too high to risk -
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@MShapland@JuliaHB1@IanDunt Great read, as usual its never THAT simple. http://www.amazon.com/Essence-Decision-Explaining-Missile-Edition/dp/0321013492 …
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