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  1. May 15, 2024 · This book rewrites the conventional history of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis by drawing on secret transcripts of top-level diplomacy undertaken by Anastas Mikoyan, the number-two Soviet leader under Nikita Khrushchev. The crisis of the “missiles of October” actually stretched beyond the “13 days” and into November, as the Soviets ...

  2. May 15, 2024 · The “missiles of October” and “13 days” were only half the story: the nuclear crisis actually stretched well into November 1962 as the Soviets secretly planned to leave behind in Cuba over 100 tactical nuclear weapons, then reversed themselves because of obstreperous behavior by Fidel Castro.

  3. May 15, 2024 · - The Cuban missile crisis and its aftermath was the most serious U.S.-Soviet confrontation of the Cold War. On October 15, 1962, the US army discovered several Soviet nuclear missile ramps on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy then orders the maritime blockade of the island.

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  5. May 6, 2024 · Marking the 50th anniversary of the most harrowing episode of the nuclear age -- the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 -- the National Security Archive and ProQuest are pleased to present an extraordinarily rich new update consisting of the very latest declassified documentation on the missiles of October (and November).

    • Angela Dresselhaus
    • 2014
  6. May 14, 2024 · The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Jeff Shaara. 4.42. 195 ratings85 reviews. New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara brings alive the heart-stopping days and nights of the Cuban Missile Crisis in a novel featuring his trademark "you are there" immediacy.

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  7. May 17, 2024 · Missiles of October by Vertex Games. Best played in full screen (press F11 on the web version) with stereo speakers or headphones. You take control of John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

  8. 6 days ago · In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles.

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