In the 60's there was an American president elected called J.F.K
Who's father Joe I believe had been the US ambassador to Nazi Germany ? & rumoured to have been a Nazi symphaiser ?????
He got elected President with the help of organised crime ? the teamster union run by the mob/mafia.
JFK thought it would be a jolly good idea to station pershing nuclear missiles in Turkey near the soviet border.
The soviet leader ship took exception & said f*** it we will station nuclear missiles in Cuba. which they did.
So began the Cuban missile crisis , probably the closest ? that the world has come to all out nuclear war. There was no hot line (phone) communication at that time between the soviets & the U.S so all communications was via telegraph messages
The Soviets backed down ? or so at the time it was portrayed by The US / JFK administration. and dismantled the missiles stationed in Cuba ,
The USSR only did so because the US gave in to the soviet demand that the missiles in turkey were removed.
The US "quietly" removed the missiles from Turkey 3 months later as agreed
Yep Trump would have to go some to emulate the biggest nutter who ever occupied the White House