The Missile Crisis of October 1962
Author | : Lester H. Brune |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lester H. Brune |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Tomás Diez Acosta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 962 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 |
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Author | : Herbert Samuel Dinerstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Contains primary source material.
Author | : Phil Carradice |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2017-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526708086 |
This gripping Cold War history chronicles the events that brough the world to the edge of nuclear war—and the political drama that averted disaster. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the closest the world has yet come to nuclear war, a time when the hands of the Doomsday Clock really did inch towards the witching hour of midnight. By placing nuclear missiles on the Caribbean island of Cuba where, potentially, they were able to threaten the eastern seaboard of the USA, Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviet Union escalated the Cold War to a level that everyone feared but had never previously thought possible. In a desperate and dangerous game of brinkmanship, for thirteen nerve-wracking days Premier Khrushchev and President Kennedy held the fate of the world in their hands. Kennedy, in particular, wrestled with a range of options – allow the missiles to stay, launch an air strike on the sites, or invade Cuba. In the end, he did none of these. But the solution to one of the deadliest dilemmas of the twentieth century proved to be a brave and dramatic moment in human history.
Author | : John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 3111578127 |
Author | : Lester H. Brune |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
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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 | : Philip Nash |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807863564 |
Shedding important new light on the history of the Cold War, Philip Nash tells the story of what the United States gave up to help end the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. By drawing on documents only recently declassified, he shows that one of President Kennedy's compromises with the Soviets involved the removal of Jupiter missiles from Italy and Turkey, an arrangement concealed from both the American public and the rest of the NATO allies. Nash traces the entire history of the Jupiters and explores why the United States offered these nuclear missiles, which were capable of reaching targets in the Soviet Union, to its European allies after the launch of Sputnik. He argues that, despite their growing doubts, both Eisenhower and Kennedy proceeded with the deployment of the missiles because they felt that cancellation would seriously damage America's credibility with its allies and the Soviet Union. The Jupiters subsequently played a far more significant role in Khrushchev's 1962 decision to deploy his missiles in Cuba, in U.S. deliberations during the ensuing missile crisis, and in the resolution of events in Cuba than most existing histories have supposed.
Author | : Robert F. Kennedy |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349007528 |