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The Brink
An account of the 1962 confrontation between the United States and Russia caused by the installation of Russian missiles in Cuba.
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
One of a series of titles in the Uncovered Editions series - official papers detailing historic events which have not previously been available in popular form - this is a collection of official documentation relating to the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962.
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War
In October 1962, when the Soviet Union deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba, the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War ensued, bringing the world close to the brink of nuclear war. Over two tense weeks, U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev managed to negotiate a peaceful resolution to what was nearly a global catastrophe. Drawing on the best recent scholarship and previously unexamined documents from the archives of the former Soviet Union, this introductory volume examines the motivations and calculations of the major participants in the conflict, sets the crisis in the context of the broader history of the global Cold War, and traces the effects of the cr...
