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DIED. YEVGENI KHALDEI, 80, World War II photographer who pointedly snapped Russia's famous answer to America's iconic image of the flag raising on Iwo Jima: a lone soldier waving the Soviet standard over a devastated Berlin; in Moscow...
...page transcript paints a frightening picture of how clearly America's top officials could visualize an all-out thermonuclear exchange ? or, as they euphemistically put it, "general war." Sample extract: "There's bound to be a reprisal from the Soviet Union," says Kennedy. "Going in and taking Berlin by force. Which leaves me only one alternative, which is to fire nuclear weapons, which is a hell of an alternative...
President Kennedy: I think it is more likely he would just grab [Allied-occupied West] Berlin...
President Kennedy: There's bound to be a reprisal from the Soviet Union. Just going in and taking Berlin by force. Which leaves me only one alternative, which is to fire nuclear weapons, which is a hell of an alternative, and begin a nuclear exchange...
Taylor: I think we'd all be unanimous in saying that really our strength in Berlin, our strength any place in the world, is the credibility of our response under certain conditions...