At the time of the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962 the British Ambassador in Washington was David Ormsby-Gore. He did not determine events but he was an important influencer.
For thirteen days in 1962 President Kennedy chaired a committee convened to decide what the United States should do about Russia’s (secret) deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
Why read a book (more than 500 pages) when you know how it ends? This occurred to me as I started Abyss, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by (Sir) Max Hastings.
It took God six days to create the heavens and Earth. Max Hastings writes about thirteen days in 1962 when Mankind tried to destroy a good part of His work.