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I don't think the Soviets put nukes on Cuba until 1962, so Nixon has a decent window of time to put together a more successful Bay of Pigs & topple Castro. Once that's done, Khrushchev's own window of opportunity to plant nukes on the island will be firmly shut. Yeah, that's pretty much what I...

Wouldn't a Bay of Pigs that's provided with heavy American air support, or an outright invasion by the Marines, be more likely to succeed? Granted, Cuba could be a serious hot zone of insurgent activity later, but I'd imagine that in the short term (at least Nixon's first term) the US would have...

The 1960 American election was famously extremely close, with only a difference of about 100,000 votes between the two candidates (and only a few thousand separating them in states such as Illinois & Texas). In the end, JFK barely defeated Nixon; but, what if it had gone the other way, and it...