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Tags Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 and its implications for Cold War nuclear politics.

Editor’s Pick

ISSUE: July/August 2012

The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50

Lessons for U.S. Foreign Policy Today

Graham Allison

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Brian Snyder / Reuters

Putin’s Fear of Retreat

Timothy Naftali

Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November

Richard Feinberg

The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited

James A. Nathan, Graham Allison

The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50

The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis

Lawrence D. Freedman

Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 2nd ed

G. John Ikenberry

Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse

Kenneth Maxwell

The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited

Stephen E. Ambrose

The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited; CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Gregory F. Treverton

The Missiles Of October: The Declassified Story Of John F. Kennedy And The Cuban Missile Crisis

Gregory F. Treverton

Commentary: The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited

James G. Blight, Joseph S. Nye Jr., David A. Welch

Brink: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

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