National Security Archive: The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60: Postmortems
Khrushchev: “We were truly on the verge of war”
Left in the dark about missile exchange, Pentagon study drew wrong conclusions
Castro: “A great indignation”
By Peter Kornbluh
Khrushchev: “We were truly on the verge of war”
Left in the dark about missile exchange, Pentagon study drew wrong conclusions
Castro: “A great indignation”
By Peter Kornbluh
Documents Record how Kennedy Administration Buried Quid Pro Quo that Resolved Missile Crisis
Letters Implicate President Kennedy as Author of Political Attack on U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
By Peter Kornbluh
Joint Chiefs: “The president has a feeling that time is running out”
Cascade of human errors, nuclear-armed flashpoints on October 27 nearly started World War III by accident
British Ambassador First Outsider to Learn of Kennedy Decision for Blockade
British Told of U.S. Preemptive Nuclear Strike Plan if Soviets Moved Against West Berlin
From: The National Security Archive nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Marine Corps History journal is seeking submissions of essays exploring the historiography of the Marine Corps, examining the extant sources and the shape of scholarly debate on specific events or actions or on broader general history topics.
The Department of State today announces the release of the newly digitized microfiche supplement to Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volumes X/XI/XII, American Republics; Cuba 1961–1962; Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath.