Kippur be war that you refer to, when, indeed, after a number of snafus an emergency airlift of weapons was organized from the United States to tel aviv. The soviets are are detected by american intelligence sensors shipping Nuclear Warheads through the dardanelles into the mediterranean. The National Security council, kissinger, cia director, chairman of the joint chiefs meet. Nixon is noncampos mentis because that week had happened the saturday night massacre in which the attorney general and the assistant attorney general quit because nixon ordered them against law to fire the special prosecutor investigating watergate. So while this crisis is happening, nixons upstairs drunk in the residence, non compos mentis, and six elected officials put the United States on a Nuclear Alert one step short of imminent nuclear war. So there was some Decision Making that was just part of American Foreign policy, okay . That went contrary to his own biases against what he called the establishment. H