Cuba comes in from the cold
21 July 2015 - 02:04
Fidel Castro was surely guilty of the single most irresponsible act in human history. At the height of the Cuban missile crisis he dispatched a letter to the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev urging an immediate nuclear strike on the US."However harsh and terrible such a decision would be, there is no other way out, in my opinion," read the missive on October 27 1962.
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