The president of the united nations used his UN representative, Adlai Stevenson, to "stick it to them," which refers to the fact that they have exposed the Russians to the rest of the world. the Russians had nuclear missiles in Cuba and the shreds of evidence were given in the form of photographs. Adlai later gave all those evidences to the "court of world opinion." This created a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the USSR during the Cold War.