Defcon-2
Subtitle: Cuban missile crisis
By: Henninger Productions in association with Discovery Communications, Inc. ;  produced and directed by William K. Howard; written by Tim Baney
Contributors: Salata, Greg; Clancy, Tom, 1947-; Discovery Channel (Firm); Henninger Productions; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Other titles: Defcon two; Defcon 2; Cuban missile crisis
Description: In October 1962 the U.S. Strategic Air Command was placed on DEFCON-2 (Defense Condiiton 2), the highest level of military readiness short of actual war.  This program looks at the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis and includes eyewitness testimony as well as analysis by key participatants and includes recently declassified audio tapes and previously secret film and photos.
Notes: Produced in connection with the book Defcon 2 by Norman Polmar and John Gresham.

"A Discovery Channel production"--Container.

Narrated by Greg Salata ; introduced by Tom Clancy.

DVD.