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Volume Podcast Track artwork Track artwork Small Island, Big Shadow: Cuba and the US (460 clicks)

14 Days in October(480 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(470 clicks)
Good analysis

Collective Memories(444 clicks)
What people remember of the Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis(516 clicks)

Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath(459 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(635 clicks)
Metasite from Mt. Holyoke.

JFK address to the nation(485 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(478 clicks)
Original documents from the Soviet Exhibit

NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis(439 clicks)

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962(468 clicks)
An Introduction by Peter Kornbluh and Laurence Chang

The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 18-29, 1962(507 clicks)
Text plus RealAudio files of Kennedy.