Currently reading
The Lonely Sea: Collected Short Stories
Her Benny
Vedere din Parfumerie
Mysticism and Logic (Western Philosophy)
The Analects of Confucious
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask
Mutual Aid
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
The Brothers Karamazov
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
The JFK museum in Boston has/had a video of JFK talking about the Cuban Missile Crisis. It addressed, in the first few minutes, a question which has always bothered me. JFK states: "Of course we knew ICBMs were in the future. It was really a matter of face saving."This suggests that it did not matter technically whether missiles were in Cuba or in Russia. The most likely distinction could be that Castro was just a little crazier and more intent on revenge than the Russians.
Here's hoping the book addresses the question of ICBMs.
