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Home / Society / History / By Time Period / Twentieth Century / 1960s / Cuban Missile Crisis
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- An Index of Documents Relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis - List of links to documents on Cuba, the Bay of Pigs, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/cuba.htm
- Collective Memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis - An ongoing Brown University project collects recollections of ordinary citizens to the crisis.
www.stg.brown.edu/projects/projects.old/classes/mc166k/missile_crisis_34.html
- Cuban History: Missile Crisis - Timeline and commentary on the missile crisis, from a Marxist perspective.
www.marxists.org/history/cuba/subject/missile-crisis
- Cuban Missile Crisis - This overview of the Cuban Missile Crisis includes the Turkish role and perspective. Also maps, photographs of the Cuban missile bases, and links to more sites.
www.personal.psu.edu/staff/r/x/rxb297/CUBA/MAIN.HTML
- Fourteen Days in October - This Thinkquest site (geared to high school students) gives an overview of the Cuban Missile Crisis and includes documents, images, history, and analysis.
library.thinkquest.org/11046
- Intelligence Imagery and the Cuban Missiles Crisis - Illustrated site from the Federation of American Scientists which focuses on the role of overhead photography in identifying the missile sites in Cuba. Site also includes edited CIA documents and links to other sites.
www.fas.org/irp/imint/cuba.htm
- Khrushchev and Kennedy Letters - Copies and translation of letters exchanged between Premier Khrushchev and President Kennedy during the crisis.
metalab.unc.edu/pjones/russian/Cold_War__Cuban_Missile_Crisis.html
- Reconnaissance and the Cuban Missile Crisis - Discusses the use of U-2 and RF-101 reconaissance aircraft during the missile crisis. Includes information on the camera systems.
www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/cmc.htm
- Sergei Khrushchev Outlines Missile Crisis - News account from 1995 of comments by Sergei Khrushchev on the crises. Khrushchev is the son of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier in 1962 and a chief architect of the plan to place missiles in Cuba.
www.spub.ksu.edu/issues/v099b/sp/n116/cam-cuban-linin.html
- State Department Documents: Cuba, 1961-1962 - Department of State documents on Cuba in the period preceding the crisis. Useful background for the origins of the 1962 crisis.
www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusX/index.html
- State Department Documents: Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath - Department of State documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis and after.
www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusXI/index.html
- State Department Documents: Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges, 1961-1963 - Department of State transcriptions of all the Kennedy and Khrushchev correspondence of the Kennedy administration, including the missile crisis period.
www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/volume_vi/volumevi.html
- The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: The Cuban Missile Crisis - Extensive collection of U.S. government documents from the missile crisis period. Plus list of key players, glossary of abbreviations, and sources.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/cuba/cubamenu.htm
- The National Security Agency and the Cuban Missile Crisis - Discusses the interception of communications (signal intelligence) by the NSA during the Cuban Missile Crisis and its role in the outcome. Includes a full-length synopsis and archive of documents.
www.nsa.gov/docs/cuba
- The Real Thirteen Days: The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis - Comprehensive account of the events from the National Security Archive. Includes declassified documents, audio files, photographs, and commentary.
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/cuba_mis_cri.html
- UN Cuban Missile Crisis Debate - Transcript of the famous debate between U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Adlai E. Stevenson and Soviet representative Valerian A. Zorin in the U.N. Security Council on October 23, 1962.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1962-cuba-un1.html
- White House Audio Tapes, October 18-29, 1962 - RealAudio files of recordings made in Kennedy's Oval Office during the crisis. The site includes extensive notes on each recording.
www.hpol.org/jfk/cuban
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