The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited

1987; Council on Foreign Relations; Volume: 66; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/20043297

ISSN

2327-7793

Autores

James G. Blight, Joseph S. Nye, David A. Welch,

Tópico(s)

Nuclear Issues and Defense

Resumo

THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS REVISITED T -M^he Cuban missile crisis has assumed genuinely mythic significance. Dean Rusk called it most dangerous crisis the world has ever seen, the only time when the nuclear superpowers came eyeball to eyeball. Theodore Sorensen called it the Gettysburg of the Cold War. For Arthur Schles inger, Jr., it was finest hour of the Kennedy presidency; a moment of maximum nuclear peril traversed without catas trophe. Many people believe that the missile crisis of October 1962 represents the closest point that the world has come to nuclear war. For that reason alone, it is worth continued attention.

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