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CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

1962, major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. After the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the USSR increased its support of Fidel Castro's Cuban regime, and in the summer of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev secretly decided to install ballistic missiles in Cuba. When U.S. reconnaissance flights revealed the clandestine construction of missile launching sites, President Kennedy publicly denounced (Oct. 22, 1962) the Soviet actions. He imposed a naval blockade on Cuba and declared that any missile launched from Cuba would warrant a full-scale retaliatory attack by the United States against the Soviet Union. On Oct. 24, Russian ships carrying missiles to Cuba turned back, and when Khrushchev agreed (Oct. 28) to withdraw the missiles and dismantle the missile sites, the crisis ended as suddenly as it had begun. The United States ended its blockade on Nov. 20, and by the end of the year the missiles and bombers were removed from Cuba.

See R. F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days (1969, repr. 1971); A. Chayes, The Cuban Missile Crisis (1974); R. Garthoff, Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1989); A. Fursenko and T. Naftali, "One Hell of a Gamble" (1997); E. R. May and P. D. Zelikow, ed., The Kennedy Tapes (1997).

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Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Book by Jutta Weldes; University of Minnesota Press, 1999
Subjects:	Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, National Security--United States--History--20th Century
...The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis Volume 11 Nevzat Soguk, States...The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis JUTTA WELDES BORDERLINES...the United States and the Cuban missile crisis / Jutta Weldes. p. cm...

Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis
Book by Raymond L. Garthoff; The Brookings Institution, 1989
Subjects:	Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis RAYMOND L. GARTHOFF Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis Revised Edition THE...Raymond L. Reflections on the Cuban missile crisis / Raymond L.Garthoff.--Rev...

The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Struggle over Policy
Book by Roger Hilsman; Praeger Publishers, 1996
Subjects:	Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS The Struggle Over Policy Roger Hilsman PRAEGER...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hilsman, Roger. The Cuban missile crisis : the struggle over policy / Roger Hilsman. p. cm...

The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis
Book by Sheldon M. Stern; Stanford University Press, 2005
Subjects:	Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, Kennedy, John F--(John Fitzgerald)--1917-1963, National Security Council (U.S.)--History--20th Century, National Security--United States--Decision Making, United States--Foreign Relations--1961-1963--Decision Making
...Still Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Sheldon M. Stern Stanford...stood still: Inside the secret Cuban Missile Crisis / Sheldon M. Stern. p. cm...John F. Kennedy and the secret Cuban Missile Crisis meetings. 2003. Includes bibliographical...

We All Lost the Cold War
Book by Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein; Princeton University Press, 1994
Subjects:	Arab-Israeli Conflict, Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, Jewish-Arab Relations--1973-, Nuclear Warfare, Nuclear Weapons, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union
...relations United States. 4. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. 5. Israel-Arab conflicts...PART ONE: THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, 1962...and American leaders in the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 and the crisis in...

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Averting the "Final Failure": John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings
Journal article by Jeffrey W. Taliaferro; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2004
Subjects:	Averting the "Final Failure": John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings. by Jeffrey...John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings. By Sheldon M. Stern...Press, 2003. 419 pp. The Cuban missile crisis is the most "over-studied...

Source Material: The 1997 Published Transcripts of the JFK Cuban Missile Crisis Tapes: Too Good to Be True?
Journal article by Sheldon M. Stern; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 30, 2000
Subjects:	Audio tapes--Political aspects, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962--Political aspects, John F. Kennedy Library--Records and correspondence, Presidents--Records and correspondence
...Published Transcripts of the JFK Cuban Missile Crisis Tapes: Too Good to Be True...the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis, complete transcripts of the...the White House during the Cuban missile crisis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University...

Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis
Journal article by Margot A. Henriksen; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects:	Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis. by Margot A. Henriksen...Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis. By Alice L. George. (Chapel...hole" in treatments of the Cuban missile crisis by focusing on its civilian...

High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Journal article by Louis J. Nigro Jr.; Parameters, Vol. 35, 2005
Subjects:	Books--Book reviews, High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. by Louis J. Nigro Jr...Kennedy, Khrushehev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. By Max Frankel. New York...Frankels monograph on the 1962 Cuban missile crisis adds another entry to a very...

Burden of Nuclear Responsibility: Reflections on the Critical Oral History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Journal article by James G. Blight; Peace and Conflict, Vol. 1, 1995
Subjects:	Social Conflict--Psychological Aspects--Periodicals
...Critical Oral History of the Cuban Missile Crisis James G. Blight Center...a multiyear project on the Cuban Missile Crisis that involved high-level...almost universal answer: The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Third: How might...

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Florida: Front-Line State in 1962: Mark Weisenmiller Explains How, Forty Years Ago, the 'Sunshine State' Played a Pivotal Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis
Magazine article by Mark Weisenmiller; History Today, Vol. 52, October 2002
Subjects:	Bryant, Farris, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962--History, Governors, International relations, Kennedy, John F.--Military policy, Smathers, George
...played a pivotal role in the Cuban Missile Crisis by Mark Weisenmiller THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS of forty years ago lasted from...prominent in Florida and Cuba, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a military, not a civilian...

Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, May 2000
Subjects:	Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, United States history
...the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis. What JFK Really Said: The author checked the Cuban-missile-crisis transcript in The Kennedy Tapes...evaluated tapes made during the Cuban missile crisis, in October of 1962, as the...

From the Eye of Storm: The Key Moments of the Cuban Missile Crisis - as Seen by a Man Who Was in the Thick of It
Magazine article by Theodore C. Sorenson; Washington Monthly, Vol. 29, November 1997
Subjects:	Cuba--Military aspects, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962--Personal narratives, Kennedy, John F.--Military policy, Khrushchev, Nikita--Military policy, Presidential aides--Military policy, Russia--Relations with the United States, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis (Book)--Excerpts, United States--Relations with Cuba
...moments of the Cuban Missile crisis - as seen by a...build up the crisis to the point where...eliminate the Cuban problem by actually...the time these missile sites become operational...House During the Cuban Missile Crisis, published by...

The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Threat of Nuclear War: Lessons from History
Magazine article by Michael Simmons; History Today, Vol. 58, June 2008
Subjects:	Books--Book reviews, The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Threat of Nuclear War: Lessons from History (Book)--Book reviews
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Threat of Nuclear...what is now known as the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962. In this...point of view: Soviet and Cuban as well as American and...there is reassurance. The missile crisis, the author states, did...

Apocalypse Soon: Robert McNamara Is Worried. He Knows How Close We've Come. His Counsel Helped the Kennedy Administration Avert Nuclear Catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Today, He Believes the United States Must No Longer Rely on Nuclear Weapons as a Foreign-Policy Tool. to Do So Is Immoral, Illegal, and Dreadfully Dangerous
Magazine article by Robert S. Mcnamara; Foreign Policy, May-June 2005
Subjects:	Bush, George W.--Foreign policy, Foreign policy, Nuclear weapons
...Nuclear Catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Today, He Believes the United...miscalculation in times of crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis demonstrated that the United...That is the lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis. A DANGEROUS OBSESSION On...

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BOOKS: When the World Was on the Brink of Nuclear War; the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Threat of Nuclear War: Lessons from History. by Len Scott. Continuum. Pounds 25. Reviewed by STUART LEE
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 16, 2008
Subjects:	Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
...the Brink of Nuclear War; the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Threat of Nuclear War...disarmament. But it is the Cuban missile crisis, one of the most dangerous...the actors involved in the missile crisis, this calculation was as important...

Chinese Special off the Menu; Venue of Talks to End Cuban Missile Crisis, Yenching Palace Attracted Big-Name Diners
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 7, 2007
Subjects:	Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, Restaurants
...Menu; Venue of Talks to End Cuban Missile Crisis, Yenching Palace Attracted...the agreement to resolve the Cuban missile crisis, countless Chinese diplomats...agree on the details in the Cuban missile crisis deal. He recalls many times...

Boxing: Irish Fighter Hopes His Bombs Will Spark Cuban Missile Crisis
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), April 7, 2005
...Fighter Hopes His Bombs Will Spark Cuban Missile Crisis. Byline: CHRIS BEECH IRISH...first-hand experience of what makes Cuban boxing great. Lee is expected...in Santiago which is the home of Cuban boxing and it was a great experience...

Shannon Target in Missile Crisis; Cuban Crisis: Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, Left, and U.S. President John F. Kennedy during Talks to Avert a Nuclear War
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 28, 2007
Subjects:	Guided missiles, Missiles, Rockets (Ordnance)
...Shannon Target in Missile Crisis; Cuban Crisis: Soviet Leader...searching all Cuban and Czech aircraft...during the Cuban missile cricri after the...prevent any more missiles reaching the...WWIII. As the crisis deepened, a U...

Intriguing, Well-Acted Portrayal of Missile Crisis
Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, January 12, 2001
Subjects:	Costner, Kevin
...which deals with the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, begins...Compared with "The Missiles of October," the absorbing...with its pants down by Cuban and Soviet deception...effective remedies in a crisis. Most of us who were...

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Cuban Missile Crisis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS 1962, major cold war confrontation...1969, repr. 1971); A. Chayes, The Cuban Missile Crisis (1974); R. Garthoff, Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1989); A. Fursenko and T. Naftali...

Bundy, Mcgeorge
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...making foreign policy. He supported the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion , helped determine strategy during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and strongly advocated increasing U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. He resigned from government to serve as...

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and economic systems. The Cuban Missile Crisis In Oct., 1962, despite seemingly...analysts maintain that the Cuban Missile Crisis marked a turning point in...humiliation of the USSR in the Cuban Missile Crisis; for the widening rift with...

Espionage
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...equipment on the ground or from high-altitude planes and satellites has become an important espionage technique (see Cuban Missile Crisis ). Code making and code breaking (see cryptography ) have become computerized and very effective. The threat...

Cuba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to withdraw the missiles (see Cuban Missile Crisis ). Cubas relations with other...47-year suspension of Cuba, but the Cuban government said it would not rejoin...4 vol., 1920); E. Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966); R. R. Fagen, The Transformation...

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