Cuban Missile Crisis
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Cuban Missile Crisis

The Essential Reference Guide

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Essential Reference Guide

About this book

Drawing on revealing new research, this richly informative volume is the definitive concise introduction to the crisis that took the world to the brink of nuclear war. Cuban Missile Crisis: The Essential Reference Guide captures the historical context, the minute-by-minute drama, and the profound repercussions of the "Missiles of October" confrontation that brought the very real threat of nuclear attack to the United States' doorstep. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the crisis, it takes full advantage of recently opened Soviet archives as well as interviews with key Russian, Cuban, and U.S. officials to explore the event as it played out in Moscow, Havana, Washington, and other locations around the world. Cuban Missile Crisis contains an introductory essay by the author and alphabetically organized reference entries contributed by leading Cold War researchers. The book also includes an exceptionally comprehensive bibliography. Together, these resources give readers everything they need to understand the escalating tensions that led to the crisis as well as the intense diplomacy that resolved it, including new information about the back-channel negotiations between Robert Kennedy and Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin.

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Information

Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781610690652
eBook ISBN
9781610690669
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Military & Maritime History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Cuban Missile Crisis
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Entries
  8. Introduction
  9. Entries
  10. Primary Documents
  11. 1. President John F. Kennedy, Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba, October 22, 1962
  12. 2. Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges during the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 22–28, 1962
  13. 3. Meeting between U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, October 27, 1962
  14. 4. Meeting between U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, October 28, 1962
  15. 5. Chairman Nikita Khrushchev to President John F. Kennedy, Moscow, October 28, 1962
  16. 6. Meeting between U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, October 30, 1962
  17. 7. Letters between Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, October 26–31, 1962
  18. Chronology
  19. Bibliography
  20. About the Editor and Contributors
  21. Index