Which of the following describes part of the problem that helped make the Cuban Missile Crisis so dangerous?

a. States were behaving as unitary actors instead of taking into account the will of the people.
b. Inappropriate actions by insubordinate members of the military threatened to drag the U.S. and Soviet Union into war.
c. The U.S. was pressured by allies to act aggressively for balance-of-power reasons.
d. The Soviet Union was a “failed state” and thus was unable to control the desires of its own military apparatus

Answer: B