cuban missile crisis, 1962

Raymond Garthoff, a former United States Ambassador to Bulgaria, discusses the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, his participation in the deliberations of the US government, and the aftermath of the crisis, along with its political impact.

This book discusses the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), the thirteen-day struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union, describing the causes of the conflict, the decisions of leaders of the two superpowers, and the final resolution to avoid nuclear war.

Recounts the events of October 1962, when the Soviet placement of missiles in Cuba brought both nations to the brink of nuclear war before John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev negotiated an end to the standoff.

For the thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, the future seemed to hang by a thread. Nuclear holocaust not only seemed posssible, but likely. United States military forces around the world were placed on high alert, and American nuclear bombers and land-based missiles were moved to DEFCON-2: the highest state of readiness short of war. Soviet Union military forces were moved to a similar level of readiness and both sides were ready for World War III. This book presents the most complete, lively, and shocking account of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the events leading up to it that has ever been published.

Presents overviews of fifteen aspects of the Cold War, including the division of Berlin, the Cuban Missile Crisis, espionage, and the arms race in the 1980s, and includes a time line, a glossary, a "people to know" list, and research and activity ideas.

Presents an account of a 1992 conference at which representatives from Cuba--including Fidel Castro, the former Soviet Union, and the United States, met to discuss the causes and course of the Cuban Missile Conference on the occasion of its fortieth anniversary.

The author, a junior ensign on a U.S. Navy destroyer during the Cuban missile crisis, draws upon his personal experience and interviews with U.S. and Soviet officers and sailors to show how close the superpowers actually came to nuclear war in October of 1962.

A comprehensive history of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis that presents a detailed description of the tension between the Soviet Union's Nikita Khrushchev and President John F. Kennedy over the nuclear build-up in Cuba aimed at destroying the United States.