Commentary
Sixty years ago this month, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of a nuclear war. With Russian threats that “all options are on the table” in its ongoing war in Ukraine and U.S. fears that the Kremlin may resort to tactical nuclear weapons to counter Ukraine’s counteroffensive, is the world hurling toward another Cuban Missile Crisis-like nuclear confrontation?
Recently, I sat down with Robert Wallace, a retired CIA officer and intelligence historian, as well as an old friend, to discuss the parallels between the Cuban Missile Crisis and the current Russian-American confrontation in Ukraine. Wallace is also the author of “Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda” and co-executive producer of the eight-episode Netflix series “Spycraft.”…