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Cuban Missle Crisis
Editorial Note

24.

At 10 a.m. on October 17, 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff met and decided that a surgical strike against the MRBM sites alone represented an unacceptable risk. They incorporated their views in a memorandum to Secretary of Defense McNamara (JCSM-794-62; JCS Files), which suggested air attacks on a wide variety of military targets.


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