Thirteen Days

Toni 2021-12-23 08:01:18

The story took place in mid-October 1962. When US intelligence officials in Washington were conducting routine intelligence data analysis, they discovered an important situation in the photos taken by the U-2 plane flying over Cuba: the Soviet Union was in Sanctuary southwest of the Cuban capital of Havana. Kristoval builds a base, deploys short- and medium-range missiles and IL-28 heavy bombers that carry nuclear weapons. The frightening thing is that missiles launched from these bases can hit most important American cities from Lima, Peru to Hudson Bay, Canada.
When the White House learned of the news, it caused a series of panic. Fortunately, then President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy were able to calmly deal with it. At 7 pm Eastern Time on October 22, President Kennedy delivered a radio speech to the United States and the world in his study at the White House, informing the Soviet Union of the fact that it was deploying nuclear missiles in Cuba, and pointed out that this "secret, rapid, and The unusual missile facility "is "a deliberate provocation and an unreasonable change to the status quo, which is unacceptable to the United States" and has effectively alleviated the panic in the hearts of the American people. At the same time, the United States unilaterally and publicly issued a warning to the Soviet Union, demanding that the Soviet Union withdraw its short-range nuclear weapons from Cuba, and set up a maritime blockade against Cuba with its naval and air forces in the vast waters of the Caribbean Sea to carry out the so-called "isolation". In this way, a crisis broke out between the two superpowers of the world-the United States and the Soviet Union, bringing the entire world to the brink of nuclear disaster...

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  • Lukas 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    A few months ago, the assassination of Kennedy was also played by Kevin, and Kevin is really related to Kennedy.>.< But it seems that his role here is not constructive. I read some things about the Cuban Missile Crisis by the way, so when I watched the movie The most anticipated is Khrushchev's letter to Kennedy, this is my point

  • Brett 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    War is really imminent. . . . Famous Cuban Missile Crisis Reflected a Little Sketchy in the Film

Thirteen Days quotes

  • Robert McNamara: A quarantine prevents any more missiles from reaching Cuba, but it doesn't remove the missiles already there; it gives the Soviets a chance to pull back without a war. If they refuse to remove the missiles, we retain the option to strike and invade.

    Robert Kennedy: A sneak attack would be counter to what the United States stands for. It leaves us no room to maneuver, and the inevitable Soviet response would force us into a war.

  • President Kennedy: [summarizing their options] So quarantine, or air strike?

    Adlai Stevenson: [clears throat] There, uh, there is a third option. With either course we undertake the risk of nuclear war, so it seems to me that maybe one of us in this room should be a coward... so, I guess I'll be. A third course is to strike a deal: We trade Guantanamo and our missiles in Turkey; get them to pull their missiles out. We employ a back channel; we attribute the idea to U Thant. U Thant then raises it at the UN.

    President Kennedy: I don't think that's possible, Adlai.