A short time ago an American airplane
dropped one bomb on Hiroshima
and destroyed its usefulness
to the enemy.
The supreme commander in the far east, Washington felt,
was perhaps a little too supreme.
True to their word,
the British evacuated the canal area in June of 1956.
When it hit the ground,
it tried to fire.
In 1962 the United States and the Soviet Union
stand on the verge of direct military confrontation.
The Soviet missile bases in Cuba are being dismantled,
their missiles and related equipment
are being crated
and the fixed installations at these sites
are being destroyed.
The near-catastrophe started innocently enough.
Russia's early-warning system mistook a US-Norwegian research rocket
for a missile attack from one of America's nuclear submarines
off the coast of Norway.
North Korea.
What's happening there is disgraceful.
And not smart, not smart at all.