Cuban Missile Crisis: Consensus, Announcement and DEFCON-2
The two weeks following the discovery of a Soviet R-12/SS-4 Sandal Medium Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) regiment in Western Cuba …
Cuban Missile Crisis 50th Anniversary
Cuban Missile Crisis Anniversary: Discovery
From the moment the first ships of the Anadyr deployment fleet left their moorings, they sailed straight into a network …
Cuban Missile Crisis: Operation Anadyr
Operation Anadyr, named after a river in Far Eastern Russia, was the largest out-of-area deployment ever made by the Soviets, …
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, OPLAN 314/316, and Khrushchev’s Decision
As many problems as Nikita Khrushchev had in early 1962, another was beginning to fester in the one foothold he …
The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Berlin Crisis, the Bay of Pigs, and the Soviet Bluff Called
As if the unequal East-West strategic nuclear forces balance was not enough of a problem, Nikita Khrushchev was also dealing …
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Roots of the Confrontation
The 20th century conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union known as the Cold War thankfully never went …