- “Miscalculations, mistakes and unknowns, combined with nuclear weapons that made the Missile Crisis so dangerous, can happen today. The world has changed, but our nuclear weapons practices have not caught up.”
Lesson 1: Missile Crisis illustrates the likelihood that something could go wrong during a crisis. Lesson 2: Despite end of Cold War, Missile Crisis reminds us that our current nuclear weapon SOPs have not changed.
Joan Rohlfing, “NTI Twitter Q&A TODAY,” Twitter, October 24, 2012.