Photo by The Official CTBTO Photo | CC BY 2.0 I want to say – and this is very important – in the end, we lucked out!  It was luck that prevented nuclear war.  Khrushchev was rational.  Kennedy was rational.  Castro was rational.   [Holding up his thumb and forefinger slightly apart.]  Rational individuals came that close to total devastation of … Continue reading the Mad Logic of America’s Nuclear ‘Doomsday Machine’