When bipartisanship really happened
President John F. Kennedy pushes away his coffee cup as he meets in the White House cabinet room with the Senate's leaders, Mike Mansfield (D-Montana), left, and Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.), Sept. 9, 1963. The two were there to discuss ratification of the limited nuclear test ban treaty.(AP Photo/William J. Smith)
Earlier this month President Joe Biden forecast a potential nuclear “Armageddon” as Russia’s leaders threatened, even boasted about the prospect of using nuclear weapons, or perhaps a radioactive “dirty bomb” against Ukraine.
The president’s dire warning represents a return to a frightening time when nuclear war was not at all unthinkable, and the Russian bluster immediately invited comparisons to a missile crisis 60 years ago when the world came as close as it ever has to nuclear holocaust...
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