Death of Mr Brezhnev
Sir—l must disagree with Varian J. Wilson (December 4) that the Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962 were not nucleararmed. What Mr Khrushchev did insist was that the missiles were there to defend Cuba, not to attack the United States. Headlines in “The Press” of September 12, 1962, “Attack on Cuba means war,” reported a Soviet warning to the United States that any attack .on Cuba would mean thermonuclear world war. The missiles were
nuclear-armed to give the Soviet warning conviction. The Pentagon believed that invasion and occupation of Cuba would present the Soviet Union with a fait accompli over which it would be reluctant to wage war so far from its borders. The nuclear missiles gave a qualitatively different aspect to the situation, placing the onus of starting a nuclear war squarely on the shoulders of the Kennedy Administration, which it was not prepared to assume—Yours, etc., , M. CREEL. December 4. 1982.
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