Profiles in Courage and Ignorance

60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Photo by Taylor Peake on Unsplash

Last month was the 60th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis. This nuclear stand-off occurred 17 years after the United States ushered in the nuclear age by dropping atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II. John F. Kennedy was 28 at the time, and Fidel Castro was 19. Neither man knew they were headed for a Cold War collision.