John F Kennedy response to the Cuban missile crisis

John F Kennedy had an aggressive response to the Cuban missile crisis. He said that any missile launched from Cuba to the West should be considered to be launched by the Soviet Union itself. He asserted that the US would not take this lightly and would response with full retaliation. However, for thirteen days, the world saw only uncertainty. The approach taken by him was that of a neutral approach: He did not want the missiles to be launched but neither did he get into arguments with the Soviet Union lest something like that happened. So he can be said to have been more or less restrained in this case.