Was Kennedy's Confrontation with Khrushchev in the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Essay

Was Kennedy's confrontation with Khrushchev in the Cuban missile crisis a brilliant demonstration of firmness without aggressiveness or a dangerous strategy that could easily have resulted in nuclear war?

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