Missiles in Cuba : Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis

Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis

By: Mark J. White

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Paperback | 1 April 1998

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For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. Mark White's study adds an equally intense scrutiny of the causes and consequences of the crisis. Missiles in Cuba is based on up-to-date scholarship as well as Mr. White's own findings in National Security Archive materials, Kennedy Library tapes of ExComm meetings, and correspondence between Soviet officials in Washington and Havana-all newly released. His more rounded picture gives us a much clearer understanding of the policy strategies pursued by the United States and the Soviet Union (and, to a lesser extent, Cuba) that brought on the crisis. His almost hour-by-hour account of the confrontation itself also destroys some venerable myths, such as the unique initiatives attributed to Robert Kennedy. And his assessment of the consequences of the crisis points to salutary effects on Soviet-American relation and on U.S. nuclear defense strategy, but questionable influences on Soviet defense spending and on Washington's perception of its talents for "crisis management," later tested in Vietnam.

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Plenty of titles have analyzed the 13 days in 1962 when nuclear war threatened: this goes beyond most in adding new research to consider the underlying causes and consequences of the crisis.--Midwest Book Review

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Preface	p. ix
Background To Crisis	p. 3
Policy toward Cuba in the pre-Kennedy years
JFK's political backgroud and foreign policy views
1960 presidential campaign and its aftermath
Bay of Pigs
Military contingency plans
Operation Mongoose
CIA attempts to assassinate Castro
JFK's use of di
The Societs Act: Operation Anadyr	p. 30
Why Khrushchev placed nuclear weapons in Cuba
Castro's motives for accepting the missles
The start of Operation Anadyr
An Autumn Of Discontent	p. 56
Soviet outlook and strategy in the fall of 1962
Cuban hints that missles were being sent
Republican attacks on kennedy
Congressional and media pressure
Role played by U.S
intelligence
JFK's public stance on Cuba
Jupiter missles in Turkey
Accelerat
Week One: How To Respond	p. 79
Day-by-day in the crisis, from the day JFK was informed that nuclear weapons were in Cuba until the day he announced his intention to blocade the island
Week Two: How To Defuse	p. 107
Day-by-day, examining the road to a settlement
Aftermath And Conclusion	p. 146
Problems in implementing the settlement
Long-term impact of the missile crisis
Conclusions
A Note on Sources	p. 157
Index	p. 165
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Missiles in Cuba : Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis

Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis

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