With the opening under the leadership of Mihail Gorbachev, it was possible for the first time to incorporate the view from Moscow into our understanding of the crisis. Here, after the conference, at a press conference at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government (where Jim Blight directed the project on Avoiding Nuclear War), two knowledgeable Soviets gave their views of why Khrushchev had put the missiles into Cuba. Pictured, left to right: Ray Garthoff, Fyodor Burlatsky, Sergo Mikoyan, Joseph Nye, McGeorge Bundy, Robert McNamara, Theodore Sorensen, and Graham Allison.