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Cited in nuclear-risk threads as evidence that Castro was ready to use nuclear weapons and accept the consequences.
A two-minute clip from the documentary The Fog of War in which Robert McNamara recalls Fidel Castro explaining how close the world came to nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
“Castro was certainly ready to use them and certainly ready to suffer the consequences.” (HN, 2021)
Maybe that was the conventional wisdom at the time. Later we found out that wasn’t as true as we would hope. [this video] The movie this clip is from and the companion book are much more detailed about the realities of the time and the though processes of those world leaders.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis Castro was certainly ready to use them and certainly ready to suffer the consequences. Clip from Fog of War [this video]
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