19621776 Club
Stevenson waits for an answer that never comes
The U.S. ambassador puts missile photographs before the U.N. Security Council and dares the Soviets to deny them.
Three days into a naval quarantine of Cuba, the world still had only Washington's word that Soviet missiles sat ninety miles from Florida. On October 25, 1962, Adlai Stevenson brought the proof to the United Nations Security Council: enlarged reconnaissance photographs of missile sites under construction. He pressed Soviet ambassador Valerian Zorin to say whether the installations existed and would not let the question drop. The chamber had its evidence; the crisis still had three days to run…
