If we would have been living in the year 1962, in a couple of days the world's worst nuclear crisis would have dawned upon us. The Cuban missile crisis started on October14,1962 and US and USSR remained at loggerheads till 27th of that fateful month.
The Foreign Policy magazine is covering some of the aspects of those Thirteen Days, to use the title of the book written by Bobby Kennedy, JFK's younger brother and his Attorney General.
Here is a wonderful piece on Fidel Castro and his bravado of using the nuclear weapons against the US. In fact, it conclusively shows that Castro was even ready to loose Cuba in response to a nuclear strike on US. It is a rich historical account and feeds into archival research done on some recently released documents. Also, read the correspondence between Castro and Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Anastas Mikoyan. It can be located here: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/10/cuba_almost_became_a_nuclear_power_in_1962
A second article is on deconstructing the myth that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a one-sided diplomatic victory for USA. In fact, the author is arguing that the myth of absolute victory in the Cuban Missile crisis, which in fact it was not since a number of compromises were made by the US itself including a pledge not to invade Cuba and also to remove the Jupiter Missiles from Turkey, induced rigidity in US foreign policy to the effect that compromises became extremely rare in US diplomacy in subsequent years. Find it here: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/08/the_lie_that_screwed_up_50_years_of_us_foreign_policy?page=0,0
The Foreign Policy magazine is covering some of the aspects of those Thirteen Days, to use the title of the book written by Bobby Kennedy, JFK's younger brother and his Attorney General.
Here is a wonderful piece on Fidel Castro and his bravado of using the nuclear weapons against the US. In fact, it conclusively shows that Castro was even ready to loose Cuba in response to a nuclear strike on US. It is a rich historical account and feeds into archival research done on some recently released documents. Also, read the correspondence between Castro and Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Anastas Mikoyan. It can be located here: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/10/cuba_almost_became_a_nuclear_power_in_1962
A second article is on deconstructing the myth that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a one-sided diplomatic victory for USA. In fact, the author is arguing that the myth of absolute victory in the Cuban Missile crisis, which in fact it was not since a number of compromises were made by the US itself including a pledge not to invade Cuba and also to remove the Jupiter Missiles from Turkey, induced rigidity in US foreign policy to the effect that compromises became extremely rare in US diplomacy in subsequent years. Find it here: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/08/the_lie_that_screwed_up_50_years_of_us_foreign_policy?page=0,0
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