Superposed
E10: How JFK Leveraged Social Perception to stop the Cuban Missile Crisis
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October 1962. Nine men in a windowless room have mere days to stop a nuclear war neither side actually wants – but neither side can be seen to lose. Two Soviet letters arrive within a day of each other, one conciliatory, one a hardline ultimatum. And with a U.S. pilot being shot dead over Cuba, the clock is now measured in hours, not days. What President Kennedy and his advisors chose to do next…