The Real Story of the Missile Crisis

[Charles Drago]

That means the whole thing about the ships stopping at the blockade line was anti climactic.

Or theater.

How risky is it? THey both were at Ivy League Brown University. THey aren't there today.

But Sergei Khrushchev is.


Which leads us to speculate about the identities of the "masters" of this scenario who were "above Cold War differences."

Who ultimately benefited from the maintenance of heightened but controlled Cold War tensions -- the ultimate example of which was the Missile Crisis? Who was fatally threatened by the prospect of an end to the Cold War?

Were there three factions involved: the for-public-consumption East and West/communist and capitalist adversaries; the witting producers, directors, writers and actors of "The Cold War" passion play; and the political visionaries -- chief among them JFK and NSK, plus RFK -- who were writing the sequel that opened in October, 1962, received deadly notices in November, 1963, and permanently closed as a revival in June, 1968?

The "real story" of the Missile Crisis?

Says who?