Why Did Kennedy End The Cuban Missile Crisis

October 1962, as the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war, President Kennedy and his advisors relentlessly tried to figure out a solution on how to end the Cuban Missile Crisis. Amongst Kennedy’s advisors, Attorney General and brother of President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy has been credited with the development of a solution that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis and avoided a war with the Soviet Union. Many critics believed the credit for the successful outcome should be shared amongst the President and the rest of his advisors, but my research is going to explain how Robert Kennedy was the focal point of a peaceful solution. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States over missiles in Cuba. The
President Kennedy and his advisors worked tiredly to solve the confrontation with the Soviets and the missiles located in Cuba. Amongst Kennedy’s advisors, Attorney General and brother of President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy has been credited with the development of a solution that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis and avoided a war with the Soviet Union. Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense, praised the Attorney General’s attitude and effort to figure out a solution to a peaceful decision. Robert Kennedy’s thoughts and idea weren’t strictly peaceful at first, but he was concerned with the United States future and didn’t want to put the American people into harms way. According to the Kennedy papers, many of Kennedy’s advisors were for and against an airstrike that would attempt to destroy the missiles in Cuba. Robert Kennedy compared the airstrike to the Pearl Harbor attack and he knew many innocent Cubans and Americans would die from this attack. The President’s brother main worry was the retaliation of the Soviet Unions if the airstrike was approved, so he made it clear that an airstrike should be the absolute last choice. “The final outcome is familiar history. A U.S. naval quarantine of Cuba coupled with negotiations with Soviet Chairman Khrushchev led to assurance that the United States would not invade Cuba and a Soviet promise to remove certain missiles from Cuba.” It was Robert Kennedy who created the plan that ended the crisis. He advised his brother to write to Khrushchev accepting the terms offered in the Soviet leader’s letter written on October 26. The letter asked for the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba in exchange for a U.S. promise not to invade Cuba. Also, it is clear that Robert Kennedy told the President to ignore the messaged received on October 27 asking