intolerable, and an effort to remove them by bombing missiles, or even SAM sites, airfields, and other military targets (plans I, II, and III) was inadequate. Eisenhower believed, McCone stated, “that it should be an all-out military action.” Still the general in outlook, he recommended going “right to the jugular.” Attack Havana directly and take out the government.

Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with armageddon: Nuclear roulette from hiroshima to the cuban missile crisis, 1945-1962, New York, 2020, p. 283