The Film: The film Thirteen days is about the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a 13 day occasion in which there were conflicts between the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. on the issue of nuclear warfare. The film is shown in the perspective of Kenneth O’Donnell, a political consultant for President Kennedy. The film starts off with John F. Kennedy Receiving information that the Soviet Union was depositing nuclear weapons in Cuba to which John F. Kennedy tries to set up a plan to prevent this. John F. Kennedy was reluctant to invade Cuba in fears that the Soviet Union would invade Berlin to counter U.S. acts of aggression. This could potentially lead to another world war which the John F. Kennedy does not want. The U.S. instead announces that they …show more content…
had increased conflicts with the idea of communism. They began to actively oppose any form of communism in the U.S. and had obvious increasing tensions with the Soviet Union. The nuclear weapon was introduced in World War 2 as a weapon of mass destruction which would give the country that wields it a significant military advantage encouraging the Soviet Union to begin focusing on the construction of their own nukes. The rising tensions between the U.S. in the Soviet Union increased even more with the introduction of nukes in a period called the Cold War, where the U.S. and Soviet Union did not actively engage in war but used their political and military influence to fight for communism and democracy. The U.S. implemented its own nukes in the countries of Italy and Turkey which was meant for quick and swift nuclear action if necessary. The U.S.S.R began to feel threatened and decided to implement their own nukes in Cuba as Cuba was a communist state after the failure of the United States in the bay of pigs to prevent communist. The current leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union were John F. Kennedy, and Khrushchev who rarely had any diplomatic agreements. J.F.K.’s response to the Cuban Missile Crisis was to set up a blockade to prevent any resources from coming to Cuba. The Soviet Union contemplated weather to start begin a war as a response to the U.S. and it’s blockade leading to the thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis. One submarine sent by the Soviet Union while underwater believed that war had begin and had 3 officers decide weather to launch a nuke on the U.S. which 2 officers agreed to launch but 1 did not. The Cuban Missile Crisis eventually ends when the U.S. makes a diplomatic agreement with the Soviet Union to remove its nuclear weapons in Europe as long as the Soviet Union would remove its nukes from Cuba. The 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 in a civilian's perspective included lots of paranoia