In October 1962, when the Soviet Union deployed nuclear missiles in
Cuba, the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War ensued,
bringing the world close to the brink of nuclear war. Over two
tense weeks, U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Soviet premier
Nikita Khrushchev managed to negotiate a peaceful resolution to
what was nearly a global catastrophe. Drawing on the best recent
scholarship and previously unexamined documents from the archives
of the former Soviet Union, this introductory volume examines the
motivations and calculations of the major participants in the
conflict, sets the crisis in the context of the broader history of
the global Cold War, and traces the effects of the crisis on
subsequent international and regional geopolitical relations.
Selections from twenty primary sources provide firsthand accounts
of the frantic deliberations and realpolitik diplomacy between the
U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Fidel Castro's Cuban regime; thirteen
illustrations are also included. CONTENTS: Introduction: The Making
of a global Crisis The Origins of the Cold War A New Front in the
Cold War The Cold War in Latin America The Cuban Revolution and the
Soviet Union U.S. and Regional Responses to the Cuban Revolution
Operation Zapata: The Bay of Pigs Operation Anadyr: Soviet Missiles
in Cuba Crisis Denouement: The Missiles of November Evaluating the
Leadership on All Sides of the Crisis Nuclear Fallout: Consequences
of the Missile Crisis The Future of Cuban-Soviet Relations Latin
American Responses to the Missile Crisis Conclusion: Lessons of the
Cuban Missile Crisis Historiography of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Documents Memorandum for McGeorge Bundy from Arthur Schlesinger,
Jr., April 10, 1961 State Department White Paper, April 1961 From
the Cable on the Conversation between Gromyko and Kennedy, October
18, 1962 Telegram from Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko to the CC
CPSU, October 20, 1962 President John F. Kennedy's speech to the
Nation, October 22, 1962 Resolution Adopted by the Council of the
Organization of American States Acting Provisionally as the Organ
of Consultation, October 23, 1962 Message from Mexican President
Adolfo Lopez Mateos to Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos, October
23, 1962 Letter from Khrushchev to John F. Kennedy, October 24,
1962 Telegram from Soviet Ambassador to the USA Dobrynin to the
USSR MFA, October 24, 1962 Memorandum for President Kennedy from
Douglas Dillon, October 26, 1962 Telegram from Fidel Castro to N.S.
Khrushchev, October 26, 1962 Letter from Khrushchev to Fidel
Castro, October 28, 1962 Cable from USSR Ambassador to Cuba
Alekseev to Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, October 28, 1962
Telegram from Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetsov and
Ambassador to the U.N. Zorin to USSR Foreign Ministry (1), October
30, 1962 Premier Khrushchev's Letter to Prime Minister Castro,
October 30, 1962 Prime Minister Castro's Letter to Premier
Khrushchev, October 31, 1962 Meeting of the Secretary of the
Communist Party of Cuba with Mikoyan in the Presidential Palace,
November 4, 1962 Brazilian Foreign Ministry Memorandum, "Question
of Cuba," November 20, 1968 Letter from Khrushchev to Fidel Castro,
January 31, 1963 "I Know Something About the Caribbean Crisis,"
Notes from a Conversation with Fidel Castro, November 5, 1987
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