- “I’d like to stress again the importance of what I see as Khrushchev’s uniqueness. As I pointed out earlier, his singular character and approached are central to explaining both why he placed missiles in Cuba so recklessly and why he took them out again so ready.” (p. 106)
Lesson: Know your adversary. Their actions in crises are highly contingent on their personality.
Cited in James G. Blight and David Welch, On the Brink: Americans and Soviets reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York: Hill and Wang, 1989).
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