The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1565844742
ISBN 13
9781565844742
Category
900-GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
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Publication Year
1999
Publisher
Pages
429
Subject
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, Sources.
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Abstract
Thirty-six years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, these declassified documents stand as testament to just how dangerously close the world came to nuclear destruction i 1962, and challenge the official history of the event as a model of crisis management.
This collection of formerly secret records-including correspondence between John F. Kennedy, Nikita Krushchev, and Fidel Castro, as well as intelligence reports, minutes, and cables-provides a unique fly-on the world view of the policy decisions and operations that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. The editors have provided a document-by-document account of the most important superpower confrontation of the twentieth century.
This collection of formerly secret records-including correspondence between John F. Kennedy, Nikita Krushchev, and Fidel Castro, as well as intelligence reports, minutes, and cables-provides a unique fly-on the world view of the policy decisions and operations that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. The editors have provided a document-by-document account of the most important superpower confrontation of the twentieth century.
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Employs recently released documents to reveal how close the world came to nuclear destruction and challenge the official history of the event as a model of crisis management - from Amzon
Biblio Notes
PART I: Prelude to the crisis ....................................p. 1
PART II: The Missile Crisis .......................................p. 87
PART III: The November Extension ...........................p. 243
PART IV: The Cuban Missile Crisis: Postmortems ........p. 309
PART II: The Missile Crisis .......................................p. 87
PART III: The November Extension ...........................p. 243
PART IV: The Cuban Missile Crisis: Postmortems ........p. 309
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