A nuclear world
— "I want to die with you, and the children do too — than live without you."
These weren't ordinary words, the moments that triggered them were not ordinary and the speaker was not an ordinary person. The words were uttered 50 years ago, in October 1962, by Jacqueline Kennedy. She was speaking to her husband, the leader of the world's most powerful nation. She did so literally as the hands of our collective doomsday clock approached midnight, at the apex of those critical days later euphemistically termed the Cuban missile crisis.
In the hours that followed those harrowing moments, statesmanship prevailed over brinkmanship.… Seguir leyendo »