It was only the purest luck that saved the world from nuclear catastrophe on October 27th 1962
The plan was to “pressure” the submarines into leaving the area of operation by dropping practice depth charges and grenades, but not to destroy them unless absolutely necessary. Submarinehad experienced the effects of that pressure for two days and its crew were growing desperate from intense heat and toxic levels of carbon dioxide.
It has become conventional wisdom that disaster was never all that close because both Kennedy and Khrushchev were equally fearful of the nuclear Armageddon their actions could trigger. “Nuclear Folly”, Serhii Plokhy’s new history of the Cuban missile crisis, not only casts fresh light on what happened that autumn but strips away any such comfort.
Until then, Kennedy had kept open the option of a full-scale invasion of the island, a course of action his military chiefs strongly favoured. One of Mr Plokhy’s most unsettling revelations is the extent to which Soviet commanders on the ground had delegated authority, if attacked, to use tactical nukes that Washington knew nothing about until 30 years later. If Kennedy had listened to his generals, they would have been used.
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