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October 17, 2012

Remembering the Nuclear Red Line

Fyodor Lukyanov, Moscow Times

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The situation today is fundamentally different from what it was 50 years ago. An increasing number of unpredictable states demand a presence and voice in the global arena at a time when the United States, and all the more so Russia, are unable to control their activities as they once did during the Cold War. It is unclear whether these new players understand what Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. President John F. Kennedy did 50 years ago: that there is a line in global affairs that it would be unthinkable to cross.

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TAGGED: Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuba, United States, Russia, Nuclear Weapons, Soviet Union, Cold War

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