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Subject(s)

• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962—Sources [Browse]
• United States—Foreign relations—Soviet Union—Sources [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Foreign relations—United States—Sources [Browse]
• United States—Foreign relations—1961-1963—Sources [Browse]

Related name

• National Security Archive (U.S.) [Browse]

Summary note

Presents an integrated, comprehensive record of U.S. decisionmaking during the most dangerous U.S.-Soviet confrontation in the nuclear era. Some 3,400 unique records relevant to the crisis, totalling approximately 17,500 pages, are reproduced. Much of the documentation focuses on U.S. decisionmaking during what Robert Kennedy called the "Thirteen Days" of the missile crisis--from McGeorge Bundy's October 16, 1962 briefing of President Kennedy on the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba to Nikita Khrushchev's October 28 decision to withdraw the weapons. The numerous intelligence reports, diplomatic cables, political analyses, military situation reports, and meeting minutes included in the set portray both the deliberative process and the execution of critical decisions made by the Kennedy administration during the crisis.

Notes

Title from title screen (viewed Mar. 22, 2011).

System details

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

In

Digital national security archive

OCLC

52175996

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