I want to incite you to make a collaborative TL about an alternate Cuban Crisis. You can resolve it peacefully, or you can cause global thermonuclear war and then write what happens after the apocalypse...
Are you prepared?
October 25, 1962: In a phone call between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Krushchev, the latter is no longer to be heard. JFK calls out loud "Nikita? Ni-ki-ta? Where are you", but no response comes. The secret negotiations about the Cuban Crisis negotiations can no longer be continued - at least not with Nikita.
October 25, 1962: The Politburo declares that Nikita Krushchev "has died of a heart attack". This arouses international concern and suspicion.
October 25, 1962: News worldwide suspect poisoning. [Insert Newspaper] even explicitly titles "WAS IT SAXITOXIN?"