The politics of national security always touched a sensitive administration nerve, but Keating’s charges, presented so brazenly in the run-up to the 1962 midterm elections, had struck Bundy as political huckstering.

Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with armageddon: Nuclear roulette from hiroshima to the cuban missile crisis, 1945-1962, New York, 2020, p. 213