The other missiles of October
Subtitle: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1957-1963
By: Philip Nash.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Jupiter missile -- Government policy -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1961-1963; United States -- Military policy; United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961; United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963
Description: Shedding important new light on the history of the Cold War, Philip Nash tells the story of what the United States gave up to help end the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. By drawing on documents only recently declassified, he shows that one of President Kennedy's compromises with the Soviets involved the removal of Jupiter missiles from Italy and Turkey, an arrangement concealed from both the American public and the rest of the NATO allies.

Nash traces the entire history of the Jupiters and explores why the United States offered these nuclear missiles, which were capable of reaching targets in the Societ Union, to its European allies after the launch of Sputnik. The Jupiters subsequently played a far more significant role in Khrushchev's 1962 decision to deploy his missiles in Cuba, in U.S. deliberations during the ensuing missile crisis, and in the resolution of events in Cuba than most existing histories have supposed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-223) and index.