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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.

A CIA analysis of the crisis

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.