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From “Missile Gap” Myth to Nuclear Reality: The Road to the Cuban Missile Crisis

The year before Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev places nuclear missiles on Cuba, the Soviets blow up the biggest atomic bomb ever detonated. If it blew up over Paris, millions would die.
The New York Times

‘So Lifelike as to Be Terrifying’: How Netflix’s Nuclear War Movie Holds Up to the Real World

Ms. Kingsbury is the Opinion editor. Mr. Hennigan writes about national security issues for Opinion from Washington. “A House of Dynamite” is a taut, high-stakes thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow ...
The Armchair Historian on MSN

Cuban Missile Crisis from the Cuban Perspective

In this video, we examine the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of Cuba itself. We explore how Fidel Castro and the Cuban ...
The Conversation

The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis

Renata Keller received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world ...
WLRN

The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Renata Keller is an associate professor of history at the ...
AOL

The Lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis? The U.S. Needs Allies

Delegates raise their hands in a vote of 19-1 approving the United State' decision to take steps against Cuba, during a meeting of the Organization of American States, called by President Kennedy, to ...
Times Union

The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Renata Keller, University of Nevada, Reno (THE CONVERSATION) Sixty-three years ago, ...
WDBJ

This Day in History: JFK prevents nuclear war, ending Cuban Missile Crisis

The United States has been close to war a number of times, but 63 years ago was the closest this country has ever gotten to nuclear war. President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation in a national ...