Cuban missile crisis: Escaping nuclear war

— The Fog of War —

October 16, 1962 – October 28, 1962

By exchanging secret messages with Soviet leader Khrushchev to reduce the risk of nuclear war, US President John Kennedy was putting himself at increasing risk. 

What alarmed the deep state agencies monitoring the JFK-Khrushchev exchanges was that the new US president was cutting them out of the loop. Those accustomed to steering the government's elected leaders where they wanted them to go found themselves outside peering in at a leader resolving issues without their permission.

The deep state wanted the destruction of Cuba and war with the former Soviet Union. They were angry that JFK had not followed orders.

In the end JFK-Khrushchev's private communications during and after the Cuban Missile Crisis led to a pause in the mad hysteria of the US military industrial complex (MIC) as JFK and the Soviets created an atmosphere where the two nuclear powers could reason with one another.

Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US and Soviet Union signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963, which prohibited nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, outer space, and underwater. This was the first major arms control agreement between the two superpowers and was directly motivated by the fear of nuclear war that resulted from the crisis. While the treaty did not ban underground tests, it was a significant first step in limiting the arms race and preventing the spread of radioactive contamination.

JFK and Khrushchev began to discuss total nuclear disarmament in a series of private letters. 

JFK's famous disarmament speech at American University, delivered on June 10, 1963, was titled "A Strategy of Peace". In it, he called for a new approach to the Cold War, advocating for a peaceful relationship with the Soviet Union and proposing the ban on atmospheric nuclear weapons testing as well.

He advocated for a reassessment of American attitudes toward peace, the Soviet Union, and the arms race.

The speech is considered one of Kennedy's most important and influential, marking a significant step towards détente and a more peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union. It is remembered for its hopeful and realistic call for peace in a time of global nuclear threat. 

Sadly the CIA (and its allies in the Pentagon and the Mafia) concluded that JFK had gone too far in attempting to bring true peace and they, under the leadership of Allen Dulles, moved to assassinate JFK.

Since that time no US president has been free from the deep state's threat to kill anyone who attempts to seriously reign in the military industrial complex and its push for endless war and global domination. And now we see the MIC moving the arms race into space.

JFK knew he would likely be killed for attempting to seek peace and nuclear disarmament but he risked his life in order to save humanity from a nuclear holocaust. 

In the end the crisis was averted when a swap was agreed upon by the two nuclear powers.  The Soviet Union  pulled their nukes out of Cuba and Washington agreed to take their nuclear-tipped Jupiter missiles out of Turkey.

President Kennedy instructed all members of his government to make no public comments which would claim any kind of victory over the Soviet Union. If it was a triumph, it was a triumph for the next generation and not for any particular government or people.

Bruce 

(With parts above from James Douglass new book) Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, Martin, and RFK.