McNamara in a discussion with Castro in 1992 in which was revealed that there had been 162 Russian nuclear warheads on the island at the time of the crisis. McNamara asked Castro whether he knew this, and he replied that he had.
"Did you recommend that the Russians use them?" McNamara had asked.
"Yes, I did," Castro said."
"And what would have happened to Cuba?"
"It would have been totally destroyed."
And he said: “If You and Kennedy were in the same position, you would have done the same thing!”
