Cuban Missile Crisis

There were two days in the second week of the Cuban Missile Crisis when war seems a real possibility. The first big question is will Khrushchev respect the blockade, or will Soviet ships and submarines try to push through the blockade line and continue on for Cuba? Had they done that, there would have been a war on the seas, and therefore maybe World War III. Kennedy and his advisors are sitting around in an ex-com meeting on the morning of the 24th of October, just listening for reports from the Caesar and Cuba. Robert Kennedy gives a very vivid description of this in his memoir, 13 Days, He Looks Across the Table,. His brother looked grey, and they really thought war