Just past midnight on the night of August 12-13, 1961
Its removal coincided with two different calculations.
Russia rebranded, using Yeltsin.
China struck hard, its 3,000 victims in Tiananmen laid out like a delicatessen.
The missile gap existed--it's just that we had a hundred to their six, six hundred bombers to their one hundred.
Clinton remains close to the levers of power, having given the Chinese our missile secrets via Hughes/Loral in 1995.
A Red October surprise any time between now and January 20, 2013 is the dark matter of the political universe.