“Now, in the thermonuclear age, any misjudgment on either side about the intentions of the other could rain more devastation in several hours than has been wrought in all the wars of human history.”

— John F. Kennedy

1961, Berlin Crisis speech

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35th president of the United States of America 1917–1963

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