The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the moment that the United States and the Soviet Union came closest to nuclear war. The conventional wisdom is that decision-making occurred “with ...
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Did our AI summary help? Tawang did not “fall” in 1962 the way people imagine a fortress falling, after a dramatic last stand at the town gates. What happened was messier and, in some ways, more ...