And now you have an opponent putting nuclear weapons right offshore. TOM NICHOLS: We have now entered a time when America's two oceans and its great continental fortress are no longer enough to protect it. JAMIE RICHARDSON: And for Americans, this would cause a sudden reckoning about their safety in the nuclear age. KENNEDY: Each of these missiles, in short, is capable of striking Washington, D.C., the Panama Canal, Cape Canaveral, Mexico City, or any other city in the southeastern part of the United States. To an anxious public, Kennedy would lay out the risks the missiles possessed to American cities. He and his advisors on the Executive Committee of the National Security Council, or ExComm, had been debating for six days since learning that the Soviet Union was building nuclear missile bases in Cuba. JAMIE RICHARDSON: By October 22, 1962, John F. But neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced. KENNEDY: 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.
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