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  2. Cuban Missile Crisis - Wikipedia

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    Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...

  3. Essence of Decision - Wikipedia

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    Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis is book by political scientist Graham T. Allison analyzing the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.Allison used the crisis as a case study for future studies into governmental decision-making.

  4. Today in History: Cuban Missile Crisis - AOL

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    The entire world watched with bated breath to see if this moment was the tipping point for World War III.

  5. Thirteen Days (book) - Wikipedia

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    In 2000, the theatrical film Thirteen Days was produced using the same title, but based on an entirely different book, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow. That book contained some information that Kennedy was not able to reveal because it was classified at the time.

  6. Opinion: What lessons on leadership can we still learn from ...

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    October 2024 marks the 62nd anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Those 13 days were the closest the world has come to nuclear war. Wartime decision-making is always difficult and fraught with ...

  7. Are Russian warships in Havana a flashback to the Cuban ... - AOL

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    In the wake of the Cuban missile crisis the Soviet Union removed the planes from Cuba. This photo was published in The Miami Herald December 7, 1962. 10/25/1962: Navy destroyers at dockside in Key ...

  8. Robert McNamara - Wikipedia

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    During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, McNamara served as a member of EXCOMM and played a large role in the Administration's handling and eventual defusing of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a strong proponent of the blockade option over a missile strike and helped persuade the Joint Chiefs of Staff to agree with the blockade option.

  9. Arthur C. Lundahl - Wikipedia

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    Cuban Missile Crisis [ edit ] U-2 photographs taken on [ 6 ] October 14, 1962, in which analysts, under Lundahl's direction, found visual evidence of the placement of Soviet SS-4 medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBM), capable of hitting targets, in the continental United States, with nuclear warheads.