We will not prematurely or unneccessarily rick the costs of world-wide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth—but neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced... I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and elimate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace and to stable relations between our two nations... He has an opportunity now to move the world back from the abyss of destruction.
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Kennedy, John F. Address on Soviet missiles in Cuba. 22 Oct. 1962. The White House, Washington, DC, USA. Radio and television address.
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