Somehow doesn’t quite equate to 1000 Soviet ICBM’s ready to launch because a president just enforced a embargo...
Sounds like more hysteria and paranoia about nuclear energy, from the same envirofascist crowd who refuse to offer any viable alternatives if we are not gonna use coal, oil or nuclear power.
Agreed.
While I agree with your sentiment on this silly comparison, you are way off on your number of Soviet ICBMs--
While a nuclear war in the Fall of 1962 would have been a catastrophe, especially to me and my family living in Houston, Texas, at the time. It would have not been a world ending event as Khrushchev had nowhere near 1,000 nuclear tipped rockets able to reach the US from Mother Russia. The correct number has been reported as from none to less than two dozen on operational status, ready to launch in that 1962 time frame.
Those intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) in Cuba and the few Soviet sub IRBMs available could have given us a hard knock in the opening attack, but not one that would have destroyed us completely. Far from it, the counterattack by US ICBMs, Polaris Missiles from US subs, our IRBMs in the Western Europe/Turkey area and our massive B-52 SAC strike force would have leveled the Soviet Union's capacity to wage war within 48 hours.
Kennedy knew this and so did those in the Kremlin. That is why it eventually went our way. In the bottom line results, we has the stronger military/nuclear strike position and there were sane people at the top of both governments those days--
And THAT is not something we cannot say today--