I was an enlisted man on a US Coast Guard Cutter that was part of the blockade. Besides education at Texas Christian and Syracuse, I have taught and been involved in a broad range of public policy work around the world. What I learned aboard ship and from those days forward has made very clear the need for what the Center is doing. We haven’t had that quality of WH policy decisions for 50 years.
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.