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Events, Other Resources, Recent Analysis, and Media Coverage

Events:

Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis, Then and Now –  JFK Jr. Forum, October 19, 2012 at 4pm.

Cuban Missile Crisis Conference — A 50th Anniversary Retrospective – C-SPAN, October 14, 2012

Other Resources:

The Cuban Missile Crisis +50 – Foreign Policy

The Armageddon Letters – Balsillie School of International Affairs

Cuban Missile Crisis: Realtime tweets on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis – Foreign Policy and Michael Dobbs, author of ‘One Minute to Midnight’.

The World on the Brink: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis – John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Cuban Missile Crisis Revelations: Kennedy’s Secret Approach to Castro – National Security Archive

The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November – National Security Archive

The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis – David Coleman

The National Security Archive – George Washington University

50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis – Wilson Center

Clouds Over Cuba – JFK Presidential Library’s Documentary

Cuban Missile Crisis at 50 – Nuclear Threat Initiative

To The Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis – National Archives

Recent Analysis:

Graham Allison, “50 Years After Cuban Missile Crisis: Closer Than You Thought to World War II” – The Christian Science Monitor, October 15, 2012.

Graham Allison, “The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50” – Foreign Affairs, July/August 2012.

Bruce J. Allyn, “What the Cuban Missile Crisis Tells Us About Facing Down Enemies Today,” – The Atlantic, October 15, 2012.

Nicholas Burns, “Cuban Missile Crisis Holds Lessons for Presidential Race” – The Boston Globe, October 10, 2012.

Michael Dobbs, “The Price of a 50-Year Myth” – The New York Times, October 15, 2012.

Leslie H. Gelb, “Lessons From the Cuban Missile Crisis” – Council on Foreign Relations, October 22, 2012.

Leslie H. Gelb, “The Myth That Screwed Up 50 Years of U.S. Foreign Policy” – Foreign Policy, November 2012.

David Ignatius, “Asking the 3 a.m. question” – The Washington Post, October 11, 2012.

Fred Kaplan, “What the Cuban Missile Crisis Should Teach Us,” – Slate, October 10, 2012.

Andrei A. Kokoshin, “Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis in the Context of Strategic Stability” – Belfer Center Discussion Paper, September 2012.

Joseph S. Nye, “The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50” – Project Syndicate, October 8, 2012.

Walter Pincus, “Cuban Missile Crisis Still a Teachable Moment” – The Washington Post, October 22, 2012
Joel Rubin, “What the Cuban Missile Crisis Teaches Us About Iran” – Huffington Post, October 19, 2012.

Svetlana Savranskaya, “Cuba Almost Became a Nuclear Power in 1962” – Foreign Policy, October 10, 2012.

Stephen Sestanovich, “Of Myths and Missiles” – Foreign Policy, October 12, 2012.

Mark Thompson, “50 Years Later: The Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis” – Time, October 22, 2012.

Janet Thomson, “Cuban Missile Crisis Has Crucial Lessons for Modern Leaders” – CBC News, October 18, 2012.

John Yemma, “The Cuba crisis and the illusion of control” – The Christian Science Monitor, October 16, 2012.

Philip Zelikow, “Learn the Cuba Lesson and Seize Initiative”– The Financial Times, October 18, 2012.

Media Coverage:

Steven S. Lee, Panelists Compare Cuban Missile Crisis to Present-Day Conflict With Iran – The Harvard Crimson, October 22, 2012

Karl Shmavonian, “Thoughts on the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis” – Forbes, October 3, 2012

Colleen Walsh, “When Armageddon Loomed” – Harvard Gazette, October 3, 2012

Resources: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Nuclear Danger Today – Nuclear Threat Initiative, October 12, 2012

Graham Allison on Washington Journal – C-SPAN, October 14, 2012