Epstein Secrets

n were vigilant in analyzing worst-case scenarios. Recognizing extreme risks (extremely unlikely, but extremely consequential), they observed what JFK, in the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis, called "primitive rules of prudence." These accepted constraints and compromises in a competition in

ussia. Graham Allison is director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and Internati

o come to the rescue of Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956; LBJ to support the Prague uprising in 1968; and Reagan to deny overt support for Polish Solidarity and others as they loosened the Soviet grip on the Warsaw Pact. If the likely outcome on the current path is unacceptable, or poses unacceptable r

manship wisely could prevail without having to fight, in practice the EFTA00662756 record is mixed. In the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, President John F. Kennedy confronted the Soviet Union after discovering the secret installation of Soviet nuclear-capable missiles in Cuba, despite Khrushchev's repeated ass

et nuclear-capable missiles in Cuba, despite Khrushchev's repeated assurances that Moscow would not provide Havana with such weapons. Knowing -- as Kennedy did not -- that the nuclear missiles were fully operational and accompanied by tactical nuclear weapons under the control of local commanders to re

litary incursion, portend a World War III, as even cool heads are now asking? As Adam Michnik, the great Polish intellectual and leader of the 1980 Solidarity movement, asked rhetorically at the aforementioned panel: "Will a European or an American want to go to war to defend Estonia or Latvia, both of th

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, Calvi recounted a conversation he had with Archbishop Marcinkus, claiming to have warned him "Be careful... If it comes out that you gave money to Solidarity, there won't be one stone of the Vatican left standing ." (He was referring to the Polish labor union movement which helped undermine the Soviet Un