Voice of America: Cuban Missile Crisis Lessons for Iran

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Cuban Missile Crisis Lessons for Iran Oct 12th 2012, 17:42 Historians agree that in October of 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev squared off in a showdown that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.  Sergei Khrushchev, son of the Soviet leader and a professor at Brown University, says the crisis was ultimately resolved peacefully because both leaders were rational men.  "We were very lucky that the two leaders were balanced and reasonable and their policy was not shoot first then think, but first ... Media files: 59AFC362-911E-4578-8A95-34E187C7C2C3_cx0_cy6_cw0_w800_r1.jpg?nocache=1 (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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