The Kennedy administration averted many catastrophes during its short tenure by taking advantage of its leader's young mind and ability to negotiate with his peers. The Cold War tested the young John F. Kennedy because he had to remain composed towards his country and at the same time control the collapse that his administration had just suffered with the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Kennedy had always tried to look for ways to avoid any military action and found the correct way to use language rather than weapons to make Soviet Russia understand that he would not tolerate any missiles so close to his country. The Cold War further challenged the president with the Soviet advance into Cuba to plant new missiles. The Cuban Missile Crisis is etched in the history books as one of President Kennedy's greatest successes because he had conveniently avoided any harsh reaction from both his administration and his enemy, Soviet Russia. During the Cold War, the Kennedy administration handled the Cuban Missile Crisis effectively because it avoided nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union by using clandestine negotiations while maintaining strong public opinion. The United States showed no interest in entering into a physical war with the Soviet Union but demonstrated its firm position with quarantine rather than a military move such as a blockade. “By quarantining Cuba, the United States of America could achieve its goal (staying away from war), using an extreme measure without the negative consequences associated with it” (Showalter 72). Quarantining Cuba helped America make a strong statement with weak words because it kept the Soviets away from Cuba without using the harsh term of war, blockade. The Kennedy administration did not want to have to get involved with the Soviet Union over the missile crisis and the Cold War. Will the Kennedy Administration Effectively Handle the Cuban Missile Crisis?" History in Dispute. Ed. Dennis Showalter and Paul de Quenoy. vol. 6: The Cold War: Second Series. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. "The 1960s innocents: politics in the Kennedy years" The Sixties in the American Refrencey Library. Ed. Sara Pendergast. vol. 1. Almanac. Detroit. UXL 2005, pages 7-26 "Cuban Missile Crisis." In Thomaa M. Leonard, ed. Encyclopedia of Latin America: The Age of Globalization, vol. 4. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2010. Modern World History Online Facts on File, IncKhrushchev Remembers, introduction, commentary and notes by Edward Crankshaw, trans. ed. by Strobe Talbott (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970; quote from paperback edition, New York: Bantam, 1971), pp.. 551-552