Historical Date: October 19, 1962
JFK discusses military options with his joint chiefs of staff. Chairman General Maxwell Taylor expressed his concern with the joint chief of staff’s decisions to do an airstrike along with the blockade. JFK references to the 1956 USSR takeover of Hungry during the Suez invasion leading him to conclude that an airstrike would give the USSR a clear shot at taking Berlin. Several members of the JCS argued for military action and expressed fears that the blockade alone was a weak response which could have lead to nuclear blackmail. (hpol.org)
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