Question by D D: What national security policies did JFK do to reduce the risk of nuclear war?
What national security policies did JFK do to reduce the risk of nuclear war?
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Answer by youthpastor1955
All these jokes about Marilyn Monroe are coming to mind, but I better be a good boy.
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Elise 19 in NYC
January 10, 2011 at 11:37 pm
JFK always begged the reporters to keep his cheating with Marilyn Monroe from Jackie……nuc war averted.
aj
January 11, 2011 at 12:05 am
Sleep with Marilyn Monroe…An American Bombshell lol
obamasbro
January 11, 2011 at 12:50 am
mostly bullshit and big balls……today’s democrats have neither…..
oimwoomwio
January 11, 2011 at 1:43 am
The main thing he did was blockade Cuba, which had stationed Russian ICBMs on its territory, and then agree to remove US nuclear missiles from Turkey in exchange for the removal of the Soviet missiles from Cuba.
Michael P in NJ
January 11, 2011 at 2:09 am
I hope you’re not asking me to do your homework for you, but these right-wingers need a lesson even more, so I’ll tell you:
* Let the Soviets know that West Berlin would be defended. Result: Berlin Wall, which was better than a nuclear war, and provided Presidents with a great metaphor for the failure of Communism: As JFK himself said, “Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect, but we have never needed to put a wall up to keep our people in.”
* Used both strength (naval blockade) and diplomacy to avert a nuclear war over the missiles the Soviets put in Cuba. Unlike George W. Bush, JFK found the weapons of mass destruction, and instead of sending Colin Powell to the United Nations to lie about it, sent Adlai Stevenson (U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.) with the proof. And the missiles were removed.
* Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Got the Soviets to agree to it. They were totalitarians, but they weren’t insane.
JFK understood the world. Would that today’s “conservatives” did.