Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile CrisisW. W. Norton & Company, 25 abr 2011 - 192 páginas "A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history." —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes each of the participants during the sometimes hour-to-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. In a new foreword, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light, especially from the Soviet Union. |
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... danger was anything but over.” “There were almost daily communications with Khrushchev.” “Expect very heavy casualties in an invasion.” “This would mean war.” “Those hours in the Cabinet Room...” “The President ordered the Ex Comm ...
... dangerous moment in human history. Just how dangerous it was I didn't fully understand until I attended a conference on ... danger. After all, Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, was well aware that the United States had conventional ...
... dangers of nuclear war, he had a keen sense of what they were. Far from opposing a compromise, he pushed for one ... dangerous decade. Instead, so long as Kennedy lived and Khrushchev stayed in power, there was steady movement toward the ...
... danger that more and more missiles would be placed in Cuba, and the likelihood, if we did nothing, that the Russians would move on Berlin and in other areas of the world, feeling the U.S. was completely impotent. Then it would be too late.
... dangerous. Gromyko repeated that the sole objective of the U.S.S.R. was to “give bread to Cuba in order to prevent hunger in that country.” As far as arms were concerned, the Soviet Union had simply sent some specialists to train Cubans ...
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The important meeting of the OAS | |
The danger was anything but over | |
This would mean war | |
Some of the things we learned | |
THE CUBAN MISSILE | |
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT KENNEDY | |
A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
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