| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Although you know the ending, this is still scary stuff: A game without rules is being played where any mistake could lead to Armageddon. Tense, suspenseful and containing material recently declassified, this offers a fuller picture of how the world came to within 24 hours of all out thermonuclear war.
The battle between the Hawks and the Doves in the Kennedy administration is the central dramatic driver here since the military clearly desire revenge for the Bay of Pigs. This internecine warfare suggests a good reason for Kennedy’s assassination/regime change/coup d’état – and Nikita Khrushchev’s being deposed soon after by Soviet hard-liners.
Clearly, politics is too important to be left to the generals. The situation presented is so unprecedented that the politicians’ habit of making it up as they go along trumps the military’s knee-jerk response of bomb-first-talk-last that could have got us all killed.
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