Abstract
During the height of the Cold War, there were two men in particular who experienced the conflict of the bull ring, two men who met "eyeball to eyeball" both at the summit and at the brink. They were Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. These men, one the son of a coal miner, the other the son of a Boston millionaire, were to guide the two meet powerful nations of the world during one of the most challenging and critical periods in the history of mankind.