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Thirteen Days The sixties were one of the most exciting time periods in American history. The ideas of a new generation started a cultural revolution, U.S. citizens enjoyed a high standard of living, and the country was in the middle of the Cold War. The Cold War saw no shots fired, but threatened to devastate the U.S. and USSR, as well as the rest of the world into nuclear holocaust. On October 16, 1962 U.…

…of the planet could have been destroyed. I believe that the decision making procedures used by the Kennedy Adminstration during the Cuban Missile Crisis were highly effective. There decisions stopped the flow of arms to Cuba, lead to the removal of arms there, and avoided any warfare that could have resulted in the use of nuclear weapons. I don’t believe better decisions could have been made in such an imaginable period of American history.