Cuban Missile Crisis Summary

Articles, Letters, and Memos White House Memo to News Editors (1962) Commentary This document, issued after the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, illustrates how the executive branch of the United... Read more

The Cold War 1950-1975 --Was the Cuban missile crisis a success for containment"-- "Nuclear catastrophe was hanging by a thread ... and we weren't counting days or hours, but minutes." -Soviet Ge... Read more

In October of 1962, Bill Doman was living the American dream in Salt Lake City Utah. He had a wife, three small children and a steady job. He had recently graduated from the University of Utah and was... Read more

Cuba, located 90miles of the coast of Florida had overthrown Batista in the revolution of 1958 and replaced him with the popular Fidel Castro. Castro's slogans of freedom and national pride sounded ... Read more

In 1962, the world experienced a threat so real, so dangerous, and so deadly, that many believed Armageddon was approaching. The Cuban Missile Crisis was undoubtedly the closest the world has come to... Read more

The Cuban missile crisis was one of the most riveting and stressful times of the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union, two world superpowers, came close to nuclear war. The United States i... Read more

Robert F. Kennedy's chilling account of his experiences with his brother, President John F. Kennedy over thirteen days in October of 1962 give an idea to the reader of just how alarmingly close our co... Read more