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Kennedy’s television address reveals the Cuban Missile Crisis to the world

One broadcast turned a secret standoff into a global shock. This episode looks at John F. Kennedy’s October 22 1962 speech, ...
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The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis

A map prepared by the Defense Department in 1962 shows potential ranges of Soviet ballistic missiles from Cuba. Department of Defense Cuban Missile Crisis briefing materials/John F. Kennedy ...
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Behind the scenes: A look back at the Cuban missile crisis

The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the moment that the United States and the Soviet Union came closest to nuclear war. The conventional wisdom is that decision-making occurred “with ...
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EDITORIAL | The Missiles of October: Cuban crisis began 63 years ago today

And even after six decades there is an important lesson to be learned. The story is familiar to most of our more seasoned readers. In the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs invasions, Cuba's communist ...
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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, ...
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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 ...