Trump scores on first foreign policy test?

Washington

IF you've taken a university course on American foreign policy or US presidential policymaking, my guess is that during at least one class, the professor focused on the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and the crucial role that then president John F Kennedy (JFK) played in resolving it and in averting a nuclear war between the US and its then global rival, the Soviet Union.

Indeed, the number of books written about that diplomatic and military confrontation between the two superpowers, that could have ignited a third world war that would have destroyed at least half of humanity, could fill several libraries.