Cuban Missile Crisis
“The deck of the USS Cony in the Atlantic, October 27, 1962. Sailors watch a Soviet freighter through binoculars as a destroyer maintains the quarantine. Foreground shows a signalman flashing Morse code and a captain on the bridge wing; midground reveals the boxy freighter Anosov and Soviet tanker low in the water; a stormy autumn Atlantic spreads under low gray skies pregnant with nuclear possibility.”
