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Cuban Missile Crisis 1962: Conclusion [Letters Exchanged Between JFK and Khrushchev on October 28, 1962]Khrushchev and JFK

Cuban Missile Crisis 1962: Conclusion [Letters Exchanged Between JFK and Khrushchev on October 28, 1962]

By Alan Nasif on October 28, 2022

CHAIRMAN KHRUSHCHEV TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY OCTOBER 28, 1962 “Dear Mr. President: I have received your message of 27 October. I express my satisfaction and thank…

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An Excerpt From My Magisterial Thesis: “U.S.-Russian Exceptionalism: Intelligence, MAD, and Détente”U.S.-Russian Exceptionalism: Intelligence, MAD, and Détente

An Excerpt From My Magisterial Thesis: “U.S.-Russian Exceptionalism: Intelligence, MAD, and Détente”

By Alan Nasif on September 29, 2022

  Conceptualization: the Quasi-inherent ‘Supra-international Balance of Power’ of MAD Post-Mutually-Assured-Destruction (MAD), it was no longer a question of tactic or strategy that molded the…

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Ukraine Crisis [Part IX: It Is in the United States and Europe’s Best Strategic Interest That Russia Shouldn’t “Lose” in Ukraine]Ukraine crisis

Ukraine Crisis [Part IX: It Is in the United States and Europe’s Best Strategic Interest That Russia Shouldn’t “Lose” in Ukraine]

By Alan Nasif on September 21, 2022

What I find most disconcerting at present, almost seven months into the war in Ukraine, is the popular oblivion to the actual peril and the…

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Ukraine Crisis [Part IV: A Message to the Few Buggers Dancing to the Drumbeats of World War III and Hailing the Prospects of a Thermonuclear Warfare]

Ukraine Crisis [Part IV: A Message to the Few Buggers Dancing to the Drumbeats of World War III and Hailing the Prospects of a Thermonuclear Warfare]

By Alan Nasif on February 28, 2022

In the wake of an appalling and heartbreaking war in Ukraine, the descendants of Imbecile [see, “What Is the Age of the Imbecile?”] labor to…

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