In a fascinating scene from the documentary “The Fog of War,” Robert McNamara, the American Secretary of Defense in the 1960s, discussed a 1992 meeting with Fidel Castro. During that meeting, McNamara discovered for the first time that during the Cuban Missile Crisis the Soviet Union had already delivered 162 nuclear warheads to Cuba. Shocked to the depths of his soul, McNamara stopped the meeting and asked Castro three questions:
(1) Did you know the nuclear warheads were there?
(2) Would you have recommended to Khrushchev – in the face of a U.S. attack – that he use them?
(3) If he had used them, what would have happened to Cuba?
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