Thirteen Days

In October 1962, U-2 elevated reconnaissance photographs uncover that the Soviet Union is currently putting transitional range ballistic rockets conveying atomic weapons in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood) and his consultants must think of a strategy to forestall their enactment. Kennedy is resolved to show that the United States won't permit a rocket danger. The Joint Chiefs of Staff exhort quick U.S. military negative marks against the rocket destinations followed by an intrusion of Cuba. Kennedy is hesitant to assault and attack since it would almost certainly make the Soviets attack Berlin, which could prompt a hard and fast war. Refering to The Guns of August, Kennedy sees a relationship to the occasions that began World War I, where the strategies of the two sides' administrators had not developed since the past war and were old, just this time atomic weapons are included. War has all the earmarks of being practically inescapable. 

The Kennedy organization attempts to discover an answer that will eliminate the rockets however dodge a demonstration of war. They reject a bar, as this is officially viewed as a demonstration of war, and choose what they freely portray as an isolate. They report that the U.S. maritime powers will stop all boats entering Cuban waters and assess them to confirm they are not conveying weapons bound for Cuba. The Soviet Union sends blended messages accordingly. Off the shores of Cuba, the Soviet boats turn around from the isolate lines. Secretary of State Dean Rusk (Henry Strozier) says, "We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other individual just flickered." The organization keeps on requesting spy plane pictures, however one of Kennedy's top guides, Kenny O'Donnell (Kevin Costner), calls the pilots to guarantee the pilots don't report that they were taken shots at or discharged upon, since, in such a case that they were, the nation would be compelled to fight back under the standards of commitment.