Books

If you're intellectually curious about why having a president with full cognitive capacities instead of advisors, check out "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War".

(Note: the president here was also a Democrat.)

If you're intellectually curious about why having a president with full cognitive capacities instead of advisors, check out "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War".

(Note: the president here was also a Democrat.)

https://www.amazon.com/One-Minute-Midnight-Kennedy-Khrushchev/dp/1400078911

Yes he reached the decision alone. Without listening to advisors at all, or weighing the options in front of him.

I’m not Graham Allison but have genuinely forgotten more than most have read about it

What did the military suggest he do?


How familiar are you with the history?