President Kennedy: The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (2016), have recently moved the doomsday clock, a symbolic indicator of the end of the world to 3 minutes to midnight much closer than it has ever been. In the aftermath of World War II, two global superpowers emerged, each with acutely divergent outlooks on future geopolitics. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States of America would become embroiled in a crisis that would bring the two nations closer to war than ever before. This paper will assert that if not for expert diplomacy and superior crisis management skills exhibited by President Kennedy, the Cuban missile crisis would perpetuate increased tensions resulting in war between the Soviet Union and the United