Kennedy began in what has to be counted as the scariest presidential address of the Cold War. "This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba," President John F. The public learned that nuclear war was an imminent possibility on Monday, October 22, 1962, at 7 p.m. JFK Tells the Nation: Nuclear War Possible But that ending was far away on a portentous autumn evening when President Kennedy gave the speech "heard around the world." The terrifying realization in 1962 that nuclear armageddon was merely a stumble away profoundly influenced Cold War behavior for the next 27 years, until the collapse of a wall in Berlin ushered in a second nuclear age. Why the Cuban Missile Crisis ended peacefully, and what were its consequences, remain relevant questions for historians even 50 years later.
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