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Free Article White Robert Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis: a reinterpretation.
Magazine article from: American Diplomacy; 9/18/2007
Free Article Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2006
Free Article High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Parameters; 9/22/2005

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White Robert Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis: a reinterpretation.
Magazine article from: American Diplomacy; 9/18/2007; ; 700+ words ; Editor's Note: The Cuban missile crisis was a defining event of the...history of the Cold War, the Cuban missile crisis has inevitably attracted the...successful American handling of the Cuban missile crisis was very much a team effort... Read more
Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2006; ; 657 words ; ...Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis. By Alice L. George. (Chapel...gaping hole in treatments of the Cuban missile crisis by focusing on its civilian...inclination to insist on framing the Cuban missile crisis as the true occasion when ... Read more
High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Parameters; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Kennedy, Khrushehev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. By Max Frankel. New York...Frankel's monograph on the 1962 Cuban missile crisis adds another entry to a very...correspondent who covered the missile crisis as a reporter for The New York... Read more
Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation.
Magazine article from: American Diplomacy; 9/30/2008; ; 522 words ; Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the...placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba still...lessons from the Cuban missile crisis have been much...range ballistic missiles stationed in Italy...1961? Was the crisis less an illustration... Read more
The Cold War.(1961 Cuban Missile Crisis)(Chronology)
Magazine article from: Airman; 9/1/2007; 700+ words ; ...U-2 Dragon Lady pilot remembers the 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis well. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the high point of the Cold War, said...Cape Canaveral, Fla. Oct. 15-28, 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis began and lasted 13 days. Air Force reconnaissance... Read more
DEFCON-2: Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile Crisis.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Military Review; 3/1/2007; ; 426 words ; ...Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Norman Polmar and...2 (DEFCON-2) as the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United...intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) on the island...Gresham retell this crisis from both the Soviet... Read more
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the threat of nuclear war; lessons from history.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 145 words ; 9781847060266 The Cuban Missile Crisis and the threat of nuclear war...UK) analyzes the risks that the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 could have led...led to the deployment of nuclear missiles to Cuba, Soviet and American thinking... Read more
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Threat of Nuclear War: Lessons from History.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/22/2008; 185 words ; The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Threat of Nuclear War: Lessons from History. Len Scott...xii + 222 pages. ISBN 978-1-84706-026-6. Both participants in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the numerous historians researching the events of 1962 have... Read more
The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis.(NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, U.S. HISTORY)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 123 words ; ...stood still; inside the secret Cuban Missile Crisis. Stern, Sheldon M. (Stanford...John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings, Stern (former historian...discovery of Soviet ballistic missiles and consequent eyeball-to-eyeball... Read more
ANATOMY OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS.
Newspaper article from: Caribbean Update; 6/1/2001; 38 words ; ANATOMY OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS is the title of a new book by James A. Nathan (a former U.S. Foreign Service officer). 256 pages. US$39.95. Details: Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, PO Box 5007, Westport CT 06881-5007. www.greenwood.com Read more
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