Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center has created this site as a resource for the Cuban Missile Crisis. Designed to help policymakers, students, and interested citizens draw lessons from these critical events half a century ago, this site not only provides background on the crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster in October 1962 but also offers tools to understand how it can inform contemporary policy.
PX 96-33:10 04 June 1961
President of the United States John F. Kennedy and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Repuiblics Nikita Khrushchev confer at the Soviet Embassy, Vienna, Austria. Original U. S. Dept. of State caption: “President Kennedy and Chairman Khrushchev at the Soviet Embassy where they discussed affairs of state.” Credit U. S. Department of State Photograph..