The Bomb Lives!

The Bomb Lives!One day in the summer of 1961, we all turned on television to watch our new President, John F. Kennedy. When his face came onto the screen, we saw from the way he had wet his hair and combed it back that he could not be more serious. He had had some meetings in Vienna with the Russian premier, Khrushchev. He told us the Soviets were threatening to make a separate peace with East Germany, the purpose of which was to dislodge us from Berlin. He told us the United States would never...