cruise missiles and then return to their bases in the united states those kind of strike exercises were not done since the i mean one hundred eighty s. . it seems as though we've returned to the old game of cat and mouse that was common during the cold war. this situation reminds us trillion antinuclear activist and author helen caldicott of a time when the u.s. and the soviet union stood on the brink of nuclear confrontation. well i got robert mcnamara quite well who's sixty of france and was in the oval office with jack kennedy during the cuban missile crisis he said to me helen you don't know how close we came to within three minutes quote unquote. i think the situation could well be compatible with that. decisions to launch a nuclear strike need to be made quickly and then there are the crews who would