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Interesting quote from above.....
." After meeting the Premier in Vienna, in June of 1961, Kennedy was frustrated by his inability to soften Khrushchev's hawkish attitudes on nuclear arms. He told Hugh Sidey, of Time magazine, "I never met a man like this. [I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill seventy million people in ten minutes and he just looked at me as if to say, 'So what?' My impression was that he just didn't give a damn if it came to that."
I guess Kennedy didn't realize that Kruschev was a General at Stalingrad and that the Russians had lost in the order of 25 million people in WW2 and would have sacrificed another 25 million if necessary to defeat the Germans.
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