Pierce Corden remembers well a mild night in late October 1962: President John F. Kennedy was addressing the nation, describing the placement of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, just 90 miles from Florida, and warning of the potential for war. In the following days, a hush descended over the Georgetown University campus where Corden was a student. The fate of humanity seemed to hang in the balance. Fifty years after the Cuban missile crisis, retrospectives typically focus on how nuclear war was averted.
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机译：皮尔斯·科登（Pierce Corden）记得在1962年10月下旬的一个温和的夜晚：约翰·肯尼迪（John F. Kennedy）总统正在向美国讲话，描述了苏联核武器在距离佛罗里达州仅90英里的古巴的放置，并警告可能爆发战争。在接下来的几天里，在科登所在的乔治敦大学校园里悄悄降临。人类的命运似乎悬而未决。古巴导弹危机发生五十年后，回顾通常着眼于如何避免核战争。
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