(November 11, 2022 at 8:21 pm)Tomato Wrote: I don't know much, so a question: does Russia still have access to the nuclear weapons as it did back when Kennedy convinced them to stand down?
According to Wikipedia, Russia has 5,977 nuclear warheads. And of course modern ones are more powerful than the ones they had during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and...estruction
Remember that Kennedy convinced Russia to stand down by standing down US missiles in Turkey. The USSR didn't want enemy missiles so close, just as the USA didn't want them in Cuba.
Nearby nukes are considered a provocation. Fortunately, both Sweden and Finland have announced that even if they join NATO they will not accept nukes being based in their countries.
https://uk.style.yahoo.com/sweden-spurn-...v4BH0FC0as