Congratulations to CA junior Petal Niles who is the winner of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and Foreign Policy Magazine Cuban Missile Crisis Lessons Contest.  On the 50^th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Belfer Center and Foreign Policy Magazine invited policymakers, scholars, students, and members of the public to propose 300-word lessons for today’s leaders from the 13 days in 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. The question posed was: “What can statesmen learn from the most dangerous confrontation in human history to better address challenges of war and peace today?”Contestants were awarded in each of three categories (grades 6-12, general public, and foreign policy professionals and graduate students). Niles won in the grades 6-12 category with the lesson that, “During a crisis, when military action is viable as a first response, the morality of using weapons to reach a resolution must be considered in order to prevent a catalyst for greater conflict and subsequent death.”