The Cuban missile crisis, 1962
Subtitle: a National Security Archive documents reader
By: edited by Laurence Chang and Peter Kornbluh.
Contributors: Chang, Laurence.; Kornbluh, Peter.; National Security Archive (U.S.)
Edition: [Rev. ed.].
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Sources; United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- Sources; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Description: 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.
Notes: On cover: "Revised to include recently declassified documents."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-427).