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Volume Podcast Track artwork Track artwork Small Island, Big Shadow: Cuba and the US (461 clicks)

14 Days in October(481 clicks)
The closest the world has come to nuclear war was the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. The Soviets had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of the United States.

British response to the Cuban Missile Crisis(471 clicks)
Good analysis

Collective Memories(445 clicks)
What people remember of the Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis(517 clicks)

Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath(460 clicks)
Foreign Relations Series Volume Summary. 1961-1963, Volume XI: Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath. The volume can be read online.

Documents Relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis(636 clicks)
Metasite from Mt. Holyoke.

JFK address to the nation(486 clicks)
"Good evening, my fellow citizens: This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive Missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere."

Khrushchev to John F. Kennedy(479 clicks)
Original documents from the Soviet Exhibit

NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis(441 clicks)

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962(469 clicks)
An Introduction by Peter Kornbluh and Laurence Chang

The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 18-29, 1962(508 clicks)
Text plus RealAudio files of Kennedy.