General Taylor notes that the Russians do what they want when they want (Thirteen Days), also references the Bay of Pigs. A false analogy error (Fujishin 112), trying to put together two different events. And so begins the game of cat and mouse to decide what to do and how to react to this discovery. Many of JFK's military advisors favored striking now, before the weapons were active. JFK and his closest advisors knew that if they reacted with force it could set off a chain reaction that would start World War III (a nuclear war of mass destruction). JFK decided against his own advice to wait and look for an alternative