PS-0061 Chapter Notes -Ted Sorensen, Missile Gap, Excomm
10 Mar 2014
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Soviet in the soviet"s favor u. s. easily had 9 times more nuclear weapons than soviets. Jfk"s huge peacetime military expansion, including jupiter missiles in italy and turkey encouraged a preemptive strike against soviet. Jupiter missiles were a key motivation of khrushchev to send missiles to cuba; as was us attitude towards cuba; wanted to give us a taste of their own medicine . Excomm conversations released to public, showing jfk"s massive lack of knowledge towards. Soviets and nuclear power distribution the presence of these missiles really doesn"t change the nuclear balance jfk, but did not tell public this. Khrushchev on oct 27 problem resolved by concealed agreement to remove each others" missiles (kennedy threatened.
