CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS: PRIMARY SOURCES     U.S. Participants' Memoirs   Robert Kennedy (Brother of JFK and Attorney General),    Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis      "We saw as never before the meaning and responsibility in the power of the      United States, the power of the President, the responsibility we had to      people around the globe who had never heard of us, who had never heard of      our country or of the men sitting in that room determining their fate,      making a decision which would influence whether they would live or die."   Theodore Sorensen (Special counsel to the President), Kennedy      "That Tuesday the first of thirteen days of decision unlike any other in      the Kennedy years or, indeed, inasmuch as this was the first direct nuclear      confrontation, unlike any other in the history of our planet."   Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., (Kennedy Aide and Historian),     A Thousand Days   McGeorge Bundy (National Security Advisor), Danger and Survival:     Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years   Robert S. McNamara (Secretary of Defense), Blundering into     Disaster: Surviving the First Century of the Nuclear Age   Dean Rusk (Secretary of State), As I Saw It   Roger Hilsman (Head of Intelligence at the U.S. State Department during the     Cuban Missile Crisis), The Cuban Missile Crisis   Pierre Salinger (White House Press Secretary), With Kennedy   George Ball (Under Secretary of State), The Past Has Another Pattern     Russian (Soviet) Participants' Memoirs   Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers       "I found myself in the difficult position of having to decide on a course       of action which would answer the American threat but which would also       avoid war.  Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the       wisest of men are helpless to stop it-- especially if its a nuclear war."   Anatoly Dobrynin, In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to     America's Six Cold War Presidents, (1962-1986)   Anatoli I. Gribkov & William Y. Smith, Operation Anadyr:     U.S. and Soviet Generals Recount the Cuban Missile Crisis     Primary Documents   JFK Library   The National Security Archive, The George Washington University   The State Department Foreign Relations of the United States   The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban     Missile Crisis, edited by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow    (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997)   The National Security Agency and the Cuban Missile Crisis   The Avalon Project at Yale Law School,     Foreign Relations of the United States:     1961-1963 Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath   USAF Museum - Reconnaissance and the Cuban Missile Crisis   Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, "One Hell of a Gamble":     Krushchev, Castro, and Kennedy 1958-1964   CIA History Staff, CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962     Audio Files   History Out Loud: The Cuban Missile Crisis    (From the October 18, 19, and 23-29 meetings)     Aerial Photographs of Cuba   Federation of American Scientists, The Section on Cuba     Chronology of the Crisis and Glossary   The National Security Archive, The George Washington University

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