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End of an (ugly/interesting) era. For the alarmists of today who think their generation is special, the 1960s was far more dangerous than today and the world came within probably minutes of nuclear war.

It's mainly due to President Kennedy IMO that a nuclear World War III was avoided.

If JFK had made a different set of decisions during those fateful days in 1962, none of us would be here typing on our computers, because the world would've be such a vastly different place that none of us probably would've been born.