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The Cuban missile Crisis

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FALLOUT_SHELTER_NYC. Treize jours (2000) Docteur Folamour (1964) The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005. Life magazine cover, May 10, 1963. Daily News frontpage, October 23. A CIA analysis of the crisis. Learning from the Past James H. Hansen Moscow's surreptitious dispatch of nuclear-capable SS-4 and SS-5 surface-to-surface missiles to Cuba in 1962 upset the strategic balance in an alarming way.1 The resulting showdown—which the Russians call the "Caribbean Crisis" and the Cubans call the "October Crisis"— brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. From its inception, the Soviet missile operation entailed elaborate denial and deception (D&D) efforts.

The craft of denying the United States information on the deployment of the missiles and deceiving US policymakers about the Soviet Union's intent was the foundation of Nikita Khrushchev's audacious Cuban venture. Range of Soviet SS-4 medium-range ballisticmissiles and SS-5 intermediate-range ballistic missiles, if launched from Cuba. Maskirovka Moscow has always had a flair for D&D, known in Russian as maskirovka. Close-hold Planning Gen.

Throughout the early planning stage, no secretaries were used to prepare final typed texts.