Kennedy's advisers were sharply divided about whether to give Soviet leaders the option of withdrawing the missiles they had secretly installed in Cuba or to launch an air strike on the missile sites, a course of action that might well have triggered a nuclear war. His finger was on the American nuclear button during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, a confrontation that could have destroyed hundreds of millions of lives and could have eroded the habitability of most of the planet. Kennedy would stand high on any ranking of political leaders whose personal qualities helped shape the Cold War.
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