Peter Kornbluh

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader Peter Kornbluh 2 Revised edition

Marc Notes: Revised to include recently declassified documents--Cover.; Includes bibliographical references. Publisher Marketing: Thirty-six years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, these declassified documents stand as testament to just how dangerously close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962, and challenge the official history of the event as a model of crisis management. This collection of formerly secret records - including correspondence between John F. Kennedy, Nikita Krushchev, and Fidel Castro, as well as intelligence reports, minutes, and cables - provides a unique fly-on-the-wall view of the policy decisions and operations that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. The editors have provided a document-by-document account of the most important superpower confrontation of the twentieth century. Publisher Marketing: Thirty-six years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, these declassified documents stand as testament to just how dangerously close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962, and challenge the official history of the event as a model of crisis management.

Contributor Bio:  Chang, Laurence Chang was project director for the National Security Archive. Contributor Bio:  Kornbluh, Peter Peter Kornbluh is a senior analyst at the National Security Archive in Washington. He is the author of several books, including "The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability". Contributor Bio:  McNamara, Robert S Robert S. McNamara was Secretary of Defense to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 1961-1968. James G. Blight is professor of international relations (Research), Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University. Robert K. Brigham is associate professor of history, and director of the Program in International Relations, Vassar College. Thomas J. Biersteker is director, Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, and Henry Luce Professor of Transnational Organizations, Brown University. Colonel Herbert Y. Schandler (USA Ret.) is professor in the Department of Grand Strategy, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington, D. C.