Friday, Oct. 5, Robert Kennedy meets with Georgi Bolshakov -- shown above, second right -- his close friend and unofficial Soviet envoy, who assures him that weapons in Cuba are "purely defensive." The Joint Chiefs of Staff are informed that President Kennedy wants to postpone military action against Cuba until after the elections in November but that the president is aware that he "can't control events."
The next day, Oct. 6, the United States conducts another nuclear bomb test near Johnston Island in the Pacific as part of Operation Dominic. However, the yield from the explosion is much lower than expected.
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