Directory of Cuban Missile Crisis Resources

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In Cuba, known as the October Crisis of 1962, and in the former Soviet Union as the Caribbean Crisis. The hottest moment of the Cold War. The Cuban Missle Crisis developed in October 1962 when U.S. intelligence agencies photographed Soviet nuclear missile bases under construction in Cuba. The Cuban bases would place Soviet nuclear warheads in the American hemisphere--within easy striking distance of the United States. President John F. Kennedy called for the prompt dismantling and removal of any offensive weapons in Cuba. After days of tense negotiations, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to dismantle the sites and remove all weapons if the United States would promise not to invade Cuba.

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• 1961-1963 Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath

  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/msc_cubamenu.asp
  Extensive collection of U.S. government documents from the period, including list of key players, glossary of abbreviations, and sources.

• Address on the Cuban Crisis

  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1962kennedy-cuba.asp
  Speech given by John F. Kennedy on October 22, 1962.

• Cuban History: Missile Crisis

  http://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/subject/missile-crisis/
  Timeline and commentary on the missile crisis, from a Marxist perspective.

• Cuban Missile Crisis

  http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/russian/Cold_War__Cuban_Missile_Crisis.html
  Copies and translation of letters exchanged between Premier Khrushchev and President Kennedy during the crisis.

• Cuban Missile Crisis--Military Operations

  http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/cuba-62.htm
  An overview, plus links, of the military operations aspects of the crisis.

• Learning from the Missile Crisis

  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/missile.html
  Max Frankel, a reporter for the New York Times in 1963, gives a brisk tour of the crisis.

• Moscow's Betrayal of the Cuban Revolution

  http://www.weisbord.org/Betrayal.htm
  US socialist analysis of Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement's detrimental effect on world workers' movements.

• Soviet Deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis

  https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol46no1/article06.html
  US CIA analysis of denial and deception efforts, beginning in the spring of 1962.

• The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The 40th Anniversary

  http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/
  Comprehensive account of the events from the US National Security Archive. Includes declassified documents, audio files, photographs, and commentary.

• The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 18-29, 1962

  http://www.hpol.org/jfk/cuban/
  RealAudio files of recordings made in Kennedy's Oval Office during the crisis, includes extensive notes on each recording.

• The World On the Brink: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis

  http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/
  Site for the 40th anniversary exhibit at the John F. Kennedy Library has a chronology and extensive links to documents and audio files.

• United Nations - Cuban Missile Crisis Debate

  http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1962-cuba-un1.asp
  Transcript of the famous debate between U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Adlai E. Stevenson and Soviet representative Valerian A. Zorin in the U.N. Security Council.

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