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The Nightmare ScenarioSource: foreignpolicy.com
Few who lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 will forget the fear and apprehension they felt. The world stood on the brink of a nuclear holocaust as U.S. ships imposed a blockade to force Soviet missiles out of Cuba.

A few months back a columnist highlighted the roots of some of George W. Bush's strategic outlook on the world.
Robert Kennedy suspected the Cuban gang, the CIA and the MafiaSource: granma.cu
He was convinced, two months before he too was assassinated – when he won the Democratic nomination to the presidency and announced that he was to reopen the case – that attempts to blame Cuba for the murder were part of a conspiracy of these groups, the possible perpetrators …

In the 1983 cult classic movie Wargames, an experimental artificial intelligence named Joshua is given total control of the United States' nuclear arsenal.