4/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy
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4/8: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Serhii Plokhy
https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Folly-History-Missile-Crisis/dp/0393540812/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis.
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| 0:35.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Bachelors with Sarri Plokki. Professor Sarri Plokki's new book is Nuclear Folly, a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| 0:43.0 | He has transcripts from the tapes made by President Kennedy in his consultation with his counselors |
| 0:50.0 | before and after the XCOM Committee of the NSC begins on the 23rd. We have notes from the Presidium meeting, |
| 0:58.0 | Cosegan's there, Breznev's there, McCoyan is there, and we will come to McCoyan because he, like Adley Stevenson, |
| 1:06.0 | is a man who represents diplomacy and not war fighting. |
| 1:10.0 | During the week of following the revelations on the 19th brainstorming, I'm following the professor's reporting. |
| 1:17.0 | On the 20th, Russ brings in Gromico and they have a confrontational meeting with President Kennedy. |
| 1:25.0 | Gromico has excuses claiming the R12s and R14s are defensive missiles. On the 20th again, later that night, |
| 1:34.0 | the Committee comes together and they vote for a blockade. However, during the course of that day, the Joint Chiefs have spoken out. |
| 1:41.0 | They're ready for invasion, up on the 23rd, Professor, who says Munich to the President of the United States? And why does he say it? |
| 1:52.0 | General Lemay, of course, is made in opposition to President Kennedy. |
| 2:00.0 | And he is really quite brutal and disrespectful in doing that. He's challenged him in front of other chiefs, |
| 2:13.0 | and accusing him of appeasement. And appeasement was something that was really very, very offensive for Jack Kennedy, |
| 2:25.0 | because his father, of course, Joseph Kennedy, who was US ambassador in UK, was accused of appeasement of Hitler before Munich agreement in 1938. |
| 2:37.0 | So Kennedy has to fight back. But it's not just a courteslaw, Lemay, who is in opposition to the President, |
| 2:47.0 | that ships the majority of them, considering him to be unexperienced, not ready to be the President. And they point, |
| 2:56.0 | Finder at him for the disaster of the Bay of Pizzo disaster one year earlier in April of 1961, when the President Kennedy gave a K, or go ahead, |
| 3:12.0 | for the Klandstein organization and invasion of Cuba, but refused to send the military into the battle, the American military into the battle. |
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