JFK's final year in office was spent in a struggle for a sustainable peace with the Soviet Union. President Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, came close to Nuclear War during the Cuban Missile Crisis. They both emerged with the determination to forge a less threatening direction for the world. Together they would chart a path for future peacemakers to follow. The first of those measures was reached in the summer of 1963--the partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Using recently uncovered archival materials, personal interviews, and a familiarity with Russian culture, two young Russian historians have offered a major interpretation of the Cold War as seen from the Soviet point of view.
