The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

An account of the 1962 confrontation between the United States and Russia caused by the installation of Russian missiles in Cuba.

300 pages of documents include: telegrams, memoranda of conversations, instructions to diplomats, etc.

In October 1962, Washington pushed the world to the edge of nuclear war. Here, for the first time, the full story of that historic moment is told from the perspective of the Cuban people, whose determination to defend their sovereignty and their socialist revolution blocked U.S. plans for a military assault and saved humanity from the consequences of a nuclear holocaust.

The chill of the nuclear age -- Kennedy and Khrushchev -- The ticking clock -- A world on edge -- Into the dark -- Moving ahead, looking back.