And just months before that first conference, before our predecessors first met here, here in Munich, the Cuban Missile Crisis had brought the world to the brink of nuclear destruction. Even as World War II still burned fresh in the memory of Americans and Europeans alike, we found ourselves staring down the barrel of a new global catastrophe – one with the potential for a new kind of destruction, more apocalyptic and final than anything before in the history of mankind. That part confuses me considering the audience but maybe the audience was comprised of the better European leadership and not the Brussels crowd.
Author: United States Department of State
Published at: 2026-02-15 20:14:09
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