Humanity Is Playing Nuclear Roulette
The contours of World War III are visible in the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, India and Pakistan, and now Israel and Iran.
By Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
On October 27, 1962, the 12th day of the Cuban missile crisis, a bellicose and rattled Fidel Castro asked Nikita Khrushchev, his patron, to destroy America.
“I believe that the imperialists’ aggressiveness makes them extremely dangerous,” Castro wrote in a cable to Moscow, “and that if they manage to carry out an invasion of Cuba—a brutal act in violation of universal and moral law—then that would be the moment to eliminate this danger forever, in an act of the most legitimate self-defense. However harsh and terrible the solution, there would be no other.”
