The Puerto Rico Doomsday: A What-If "History" of October 1962
The Governor of P.R. is watching the President of the United States’s message about the Cuban Crisis (Fictional Image). Context The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 brought the world close to nuclear devastation. Historical records from the National Security Archive point to the period from October 24 to 27 as the flashpoint of the Cold War. It was a frightening window marked by Soviet ships challenging the U.S. “quarantine” line, the shootdown of an American U-2 spy plane, and the B-59 submarine incident. Decades later, declassified documents, such as the History of the Custody and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons: July 1945 through September 1977, revealed a lesser-known detail: the United States secretly deployed nuclear weapons to Puerto Rico during this period. Today, even as the geopolitical landscape has shifted, tensions for a wider war persist, and the memories of the past still haunt older generations, while for newer ones, something unimaginable exists. Another...
