..challenges earlier depictions of this event as a model of a "controlled crisis" but calls into question the fundamental assumption that severe international crises can, in fact, be "managed" at all.

and some of the reasons why Humans cannot be expected to do much better, even after seeing [just a few 'new' details ... it took half a century to become even 'searchable'] .. clearly the new modifier for anything we call, 'knowledge'.)

This despite A. E.'s early-on observations, Oppie's and others': Now it's seventy years since Alamogordo, when those earliest STOP! and Think!! utterances went Zooom: and the world got 44 years of Duck & Cover terrorizing of selves and all their children, as Humans contrived the (mere techno details) for a Stand-off, for which many congratulate selves. [lots of Luck happened.] Yet the projected 'Arms Race' phrase was in the earliest pleas: only American hubris/plus faith in absolute secrecy (!) overruled that distilled-Wisdom.

And we recently spent some giga-Bucks to ensure that Our arsenal shall remain fully-capable of perpetual-MAD (clearly presuming: ICBM-grade sub-Madness WIll be continued too) ... as we now contend with the curator of the USSR's equivalent arsenal, doubtless also to become Modernized: (or Putin isn't the Putin we think we've psychoanalyzed.) Sure seems a QED on that opening quip: our psycho- social- analytical skills are no better than in 1914, 1933-39 and on through the Domino Theory and Grenada and (all the other tiny Countries we picked-off via the massive techno of the US Empire.)

Oh.. and.. "I vas dere!, Charlie": we see means ever less and less ... the above declassifications reconfirm that all War Plans become useless after opening shots: and we revert to that Luck thing. And yes, Schlesinger's Thousand Days was a romantic paean, inescapable? after any martyrdom.

Good to know ... when shortly we hear of the next War On (Drugs? nope: FAIL) ... on (Terror? nope: FAIL while being also an oxymoronic concept to begin with.) Defective species, even after hearing, "The only way to win is by not playing at all": ... from a B-Movie!

Luck to us all..
Nobody with Power, mere $$$-greedheads or via Political titles, seems capable of acting on the knowledge, perhaps because of widespread, oft medieval superstitions amidst all the armed masses?
So: Luck IS all we have left, when that collective Learning-curve resembles a flat-line.