Invasion or blockade
No one seems to give any thought to the fact that a Blockade was as much
an act of war as an invastion of Cuba. It is an act of war to stop another
country's ships in Internationbal Waters and threaten to board them. JFK
threw the dice hoping for a Seven and that the Soviets would back down.
I wonder if the Soviets would actually have invaded Western Europe almost
certainly igniting a Nuclear Exchange. Would Khruschev have sacrificed the
planet for a two-bit radical Dictator of a fourth rate country. Makes
one wonder.