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Volume Podcast Track artwork Track artwork Small Island, Big Shadow: Cuba and the US (32 clicks)

14 Days in October(6784 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(2757 clicks)
Good analysis

Collective Memories(2616 clicks)
What people remember of the Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis(5743 clicks)

Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath(4618 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(2729 clicks)
Metasite from Mt. Holyoke.

JFK address to the nation(2711 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(2535 clicks)
Original documents from the Soviet Exhibit

NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis(2425 clicks)

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962(4050 clicks)
An Introduction by Peter Kornbluh and Laurence Chang

The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 18-29, 1962(2706 clicks)
Text plus RealAudio files of Kennedy.