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Belfer Center’s Top 10 Books on the Cuban Missile Crisis Belfer Center’s catalog of reading on nuclear danger today John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum – “The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 : A Reading List (2002)”
“Graham Allison on World War I Ukraine and Realism ” Graham Allison discusses the Ukraine Crisis and its relationship to World War I and the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as the triangular relationship between the United States, Russia, and China. “Foreign Affairs Focus On Nuclear Lessons: The Cuban Missile Crisis With Graham Allison” Fifty
“Foreign Affairs Focus On Nuclear Issues: The Cuban Missile Crisis With Graham Allison” Fifty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Gideon Rose talks to author and Belfer Center Director Graham Allison about the lessons that have been and can be learned from the diplomatic management of the historic confrontation. Can historical analysis yield a wise
Selected Key Documents: CIA Special National Intelligence Estimate, “Major Consequences of Certain U.S. Courses of Action on Cuba,” October 20, 1962. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, military briefing, “Notes on October 21, 1962 Meeting with the President.” “Radio-TV Address of the President to the Nation from the White House,” October 22, 1962. Prime Minister Fidel
In the summer of 1962, upon the request of President Kennedy, recording devices were installed at several locations in the White House. A Dictaphone was also hooked up to a telephone in the Oval Office. Known only to the President, his secretary, Robert Kennedy, and the technicians who installed them, these secret devices could be
“The Red Threat. President Orders Cuban Blockade” Historic newsreel footage from October 22, 1962 of President Kennedy speaking about the Soviet military buildup in Cuba and announcing “a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment.” “President John F. Kennedy’s Address on Cuba” President Kennedy addresses the nation on the evening of Monday, October 22, 1962,
“Historians have scrutinized the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 far more deeply than they have the Berlin crisis that preceded it by a year. For all the attention given Cuba, however, what happened in Berlin was even more decisive in shaping the era between the end of World War II in 1945 and German unification
Nikolai Leonov was a KGB officer stationed in Mexico during Cuban Missile Crisis. “One mistake at the wrong time in October 1962, and all could have been lost. I can hardly believe we are here today, talking about this. It is almost as if some divine intervention occurred to help us save ourselves, but with
“Every new administration should beware of its special vulnerability during at least the first year of its tenure, retain at the start a few apolitical experts from the preceding administration to tide over its inexperience and try to avoid all crises as long as possible.” Lesson: Be knowledgeable of your inexperience; maintain institutional knowledge by
Policymakers involved with the Cuban Missile Crisis: Other Policymakers: