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 | : John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 3111578127 |
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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Lester H. Brune |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Alice L. George |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2004-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807861618 |
For thirteen days in October 1962, America stood at the brink of nuclear war. Nikita Khrushchev's decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba and John F. Kennedy's defiant response introduced the possibility of unprecedented cataclysm. The immediate threat of destruction entered America's classrooms and its living rooms. Awaiting Armageddon provides the first in-depth look at this crisis as it roiled outside of government offices, where ordinary Americans realized their government was unprepared to protect either itself or its citizens from the dangers of nuclear war. During the seven days between Kennedy's announcement of a naval blockade and Khrushchev's decision to withdraw Soviet nuclear missiles from Cuba, U.S. citizens absorbed the nightmare scenario unfolding on their television sets. An estimated ten million Americans fled their homes; millions more prepared shelters at home, clearing the shelves of supermarkets and gun stores. Alice George captures the irrationality of the moment as Americans coped with dread and resignation, humor and pathos, terror and ignorance. In her examination of the public response to the missile crisis, the author reveals cracks in the veneer of American confidence in the early years of the space age and demonstrates how the fears generated by Cold War culture blinded many Americans to the dangers of nuclear war until it was almost too late.