Cuban Missile Crisis

Diplomatic proposals succeed only when they satisfy the vital interests of each party to a conflict.
We should not delude ourselves with the assumption that peace is the natural state of mankind in our age.
"I feel like the threat is as real to everyone else as it is to Guam."
It was June of 1961, and the setting was neutral Vienna. This first and last Kennedy-Khrushchev summit would prove to be one of the most explosive and decisive meetings ever of the two most powerful leaders of their time.