A COLD WAR STORY

I remember the fear that ordinary people felt during the Cuban Missile Crises in 1962. EVERYBODY was frightened. My uncle built a bomb shelter (later excellent for tornados).

In the midst of the crises, Fidel Castro flew to Russian. This was seen as VERY BAD NEWS.

When the KGB opened some of its records, the records showed that Khrushchev, the premier of the USSR (now Russia), did NOT try to make the crises worse. Instead Khrushchev used his time with Castro to show Castro films of the horrible deaths from atom bombs. Castro decided that he did not want such a weapon on his island.

Neither Khrushchev nor Castro ever discussed what happened.

Again, Russia stands alone trying to protect a dictator. But secretly, Russia may be trying to solve a crises that could loose chemical weapons into the hands of every terrorist in the world.

BTW, during the crises, my father explained again and again that radiation did not work like people seemed to think. I will follow his lead in trying to explain. Think of radiation as if it were fire. A fire bomb is scary and dangerous. Small fires are warm and friendly. It is the intensity and concentration that makes the difference.