The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
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Total Pages | : 962 |
Release | : 1990 |
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Total Pages | : 962 |
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Author | : Sergo Anastasovich Mikoi︠a︡n |
Publisher | : Cold War International History |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804762014 |
300 pages of documents include: telegrams, memoranda of conversations, instructions to diplomats, etc.
Author | : John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 3111578127 |
Author | : Serhii Plokhy |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393540820 |
"The definitive history.…With his masterly book, Mr. Plokhy has sounded a warning bell." — The Economist A harrowing account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis. Serhii Plokhy’s Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, which involved John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground. In breathtaking detail, Plokhy vividly recounts the young JFK being played by the canny Khrushchev; the hotheaded Castro willing to defy the USSR and threatening to align himself with China; the Soviet troops on the ground clearing jungle foliage in the tropical heat, and desperately trying to conceal nuclear installations on Cuba, which were nonetheless easily spotted by U-2 spy planes; and the hair-raising near misses at sea that nearly caused a Soviet nuclear-armed submarine to fire its weapons. More often than not, the Americans and Soviets misread each other, operated under false information, and came perilously close to nuclear catastrophe. Despite these errors, nuclear war was ultimately avoided for one central reason: fear, and the realization that any escalation on either the Soviets’ or the Americans’ part would lead to mutual destruction. Drawing on a range of Soviet archival sources, including previously classified KGB documents, as well as White House tapes, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama and anxiety of those tense days, and provides a way for us to grapple with the problems posed in our present day.
Author | : Mark J. White |
Publisher | : Ivan R. Dee |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 1998-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1461713056 |
For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. Mark White’s study adds an equally intense scrutiny of the causes and consequences of the crisis. Missiles in Cuba is based on up-to-date scholarship as well as Mr. White’s own findings in National Security Archive materials, Kennedy Library tapes of ExComm meetings, and correspondence between Soviet officials in Washington and Havana—all newly released. His more rounded picture gives us a much clearer understanding of the policy strategies pursued by the United States and the Soviet Union (and, to a lesser extent, Cuba) that brought on the crisis. His almost hour-by-hour account of the confrontation itself also destroys some venerable myths, such as the unique initiatives attributed to Robert Kennedy. And his assessment of the consequences of the crisis points to salutary effects on Soviet-American relation and on U.S. nuclear defense strategy, but questionable influences on Soviet defense spending and on Washington’s perception of its talents for "crisis management," later tested in Vietnam.
Author | : Tomás Diez Acosta |
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Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
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In October 1962, Washington pushed the world to the edge of nuclear war. Here, for the first time, the full story of that historic moment is told from the perspective of the Cuban people, whose determination to defend their sovereignty and their socialist revolution blocked U.S. plans for a military assault and saved humanity from the consequences of a nuclear holocaust.
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Total Pages | : 1242 |
Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : Jenny Thompson |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2018-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1421424096 |
"The Kremlinologist chronicles major events of the Cold War through the prism of the life of one of its top diplomats, Llewellyn Thompson. His life went from the wilds of the American West to the inner sanctums of the White House and the Kremlin. As the ambassador to Moscow, he became an important advisor to presidents and a key participant in major twentieth-century events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. Yet, unlike his contemporaries McGeorge Bundy and George C. Marshall--who considered Thompson one of the most crucial actors in the Cold War and the "unsung hero" of the Cuban Missile Crisis--he has not been the subject of a major biography until now. Thompson's daughters Jenny Thompson Vukacic and Sherry Thompson set out to document their father's life as thoroughly as possible. Relying on primary sources and interviews, they received generous assistance from archivists, historians, and colleagues of their father. They also acquired documents and information from Russian archives, including the KGB archives. As family, they had unprecedented access to his FBI dossier, State Department personnel files, family archives, letters, diaries, speeches, and documents. Their original research brings new material to light including important information on the U-2, Kennan's containment policy, and Thompson's role in US covert operations machinery. The book refutes historical misinterpretations of events in the Berlin Crisis, the Austrian State Treaty, and the Cuban Missile Crisis."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Robert F. Kennedy |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2011-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393341539 |
"A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history."—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes each of the participants during the sometimes hour-to-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. In a new foreword, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light, especially from the Soviet Union.
Author | : Linda Rios Bromley |
Publisher | : Latin America@War |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-03 |
Genre | : Cuba |
ISBN | : 9781915070753 |
The Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961 executed by Cuban patriots to overthrow Cuba's leader, Fidel Castro, ended in a catastrophic failure. Leaders in Washington and Cuban exiles in Florida expected the result to install a democratic government in place, but Castro remained in charge. Finger pointing among the Cuba Task Force in Washington, DC resulted in many fired from their government jobs. The pot continued to simmer and discovery of Soviet missiles by U-2 spy planes confirmed Washington's worst fear, another showdown with the Soviet Union. At the time, no telephones between Washington and Moscow existed, no real-time communications or computers to accurately identify the location of undersea vessels. John F. Kennedy, the 43-year-old President of the US, and his administration had no experience dealing with or negotiating through a crisis involving nuclear weapons. However, they understood what the results could be for the US and even the world. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened to protect Cuba from attack by the imperialists of the US. Kennedy's public persona displayed an attitude of a seasoned Cold War supporter, when in fact he was less confident of military solutions. With all US military agencies on high alert, the public feared escalation of the imminent crisis and citizens began preparations for an attack. The 4080th Strategic Recon Wing of the Strategic Air Command assigned the best of its U-2 pilots to dangerous missions over Cuba to confirm nuclear missiles delivered there by a Soviet flotilla of ships. One U-2 pilot died when his aircraft sustained a strike at 70,000-feet altitude. Aerial photographs from each U-2 flight went directly to Washington DC for interpretation and subsequently to the White House. In yet another area of the world, tensions reached fever pitch, when American and Soviet tanks faced off at the Berlin Wall. Communications between Kennedy and Khrushchev, sent through their ambassadors, achieved the desired result when each side withdrew their tanks. In the end, Khrushchev made demands unrelated to the current crisis and Kennedy reluctantly agreed to comply to protect the US and the world from nuclear disaster. The exact details of the resolution had not been leaked to the press until after both sides declared the crisis concluded.