ders would communicate via letters. Towards the end of the crisis Khrushchev had written JFK two contradictory letters that were received at the same time. Kennedy decided that when they had received two contradictory messages from Khrushchev, the first was favorable and the second unfavorable, that they would reply to the first and not the second. This shows how Americans had a really difficult time determining Khrushchev's true intentions, due to the poor communications. If JFK and Khrushchev would have a direct line of communication they would both determine that the two superpowers of the time, the U.S. and the Soviet Union did not want to end the world. The world could have ended because of the poor communication used during the Cuban Missile Crisis. If Khrushchev and Kennedy would have resolved the issue with each other rather than through secondary government officials than the crisis may have never escalated to the height it had.After the crisis had ended Khrushchev stated that, "even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise." This statement shows that all the Soviets truly wanted was peace, it wasn't apparent through the crisis because the U.S. could have never known that as a result of the miscommunication. Finally, when we compare Nikita S. Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy, Khrushchev is an older man, an experienced politician he felt that he could push the untested Kennedy. JFK and Khrushchev had their first encounter with each other in 1961 at the Vienna convention. Throughout the entire convention Khrushchev bullied the young president. From this confrontation Khrushchev discovered that he could bully JFK and he would not react. So placing the missiles in Cuba was inevitable. The Soviets felt that they were able to place the missiles, bully, and threaten the U.S. and get away with it. This was one of the reasons the world was almost destructed.Khrushchev believed that Kennedy would not gain knowledge of the miss...
