How I Helped Save the World From Nuclear War

15 January 2013 | Issue 5046

Much has been written about those perilous 13 days in October 1962 when the world was closer to nuclear extinction than it has ever been. Particularly in the U.S., the peaceful resolution of that conflict is credited almost exclusively to the courage and resolution of President John F. Kennedy, and there is no question that had he not had that courage and resolution, I almost certainly would not be here to write these words.

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