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:SERGEI KHRUSHCHEV:--'''if the strike will begin, he [Khurushchev] will lose the control of the situation and then nobody knows who would push the button, general, sergeant, colonel''', ''and all this fire on this distraction. At that time there was no technical possibility to prevent it. You can turn the key, like in the car, push the button, and destroy New York City and then begin the war. So he wanted to prevent that. '' http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america/july-dec97/cuba_10-16.html --[[User:RobS|RobS]] 13:19, 8 June 2007 (EDT)
:SERGEI KHRUSHCHEV:--'''if the strike will begin, he [Khurushchev] will lose the control of the situation and then nobody knows who would push the button, general, sergeant, colonel''', ''and all this fire on this distraction. At that time there was no technical possibility to prevent it. You can turn the key, like in the car, push the button, and destroy New York City and then begin the war. So he wanted to prevent that. '' http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america/july-dec97/cuba_10-16.html --[[User:RobS|RobS]] 13:19, 8 June 2007 (EDT)
::Cool! Very nice writeup! I think that I'm starting to understand this particular aspect a whole lot better. So, Kreuschev was actually just the method of communication with President Kennedy?
::Actually, its sounding like Kreuschev may have been overstepping his boundaries when he sent the message to Radio Moscow (Unless there was an agreement reached in the Soviet Government that I don't know about, which has a very probably chance, or some other unknown fact). The tricky thing is, we don't have as many sources from the USSR perspective as easily accessible as American ones. Again, very nice section! [[User:Mskreuz|Mskreuz]] 16:10, 8 June 2007 (EDT)