Cuban Missile Crisis Prime Time Analysis

World War III is an alarming event to ponder on right? Especially if that war would be nuclear. This event almost happened on multiple occasions, but this is going to be about a nerve-racking time in 1962. What happened in 1962 you may ask? The Cuban Missile Crisis. Just as the year was coming to an end an American spy plane took pictures of missiles in an island 103 miles off the coast of Florida, Cuba. Can theorize who put the missiles there? The USSR put them there because Cuba was a neighboring communist country to the US, so if the US were to do something the USSR could shoot the missiles. Mind you, these weapons are nuclear and as we should all know that is never excellent. After this very stressful time for the US and the USSR how did

In 1971, New York Times columnist Fred Ferretti wrote an article about a new television series called All in the Family. Ferretti asked, whether or not if racism and bigotry were considered funny and he concluded that it was not and as a result believed that the show was lacking good taste. Apparently, the television viewers of America disagreed. Running from 1971 to 1979, All In The Family wasn’t the first television series to tackle major issues on a major network, but what was innovative about the series, was that is that it hewed its situational comedy from topical issues, and it explored them through characters we got to know and cared about every week. Simply put, All in the Family wasn’t just a great situational comedy; it as was an ongoing national conversation rooted in well-written, well-acted and multifaceted characters.

“I know there is a God--and I see a storm coming; If he has a place for me, I believe I am ready,” is the Abraham Lincoln quote, written on a slip of paper, that President John F. Kennedy kept in his pocket (Dobbs 14). And if ever there was a storm coming, it was evident to Kennedy the morning of October 16, 1962: the date Kennedy was made aware of Soviet missiles in Cuba. This was the testing ground, the closest the world has ever been to nuclear war, the Cuban Missile Crisis, 16-28 October, 1962. The future for millions of lives depended upon the ability of United States President John F. Kennedy and Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev to reach an agreement in which both did not lose face, and more importantly, the world survived.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a warning to all the countries in the world. The US and the Soviet Union both knew the world had come too close to a nuclear war; both super powers knew there had to be better communication. After eight months, a hotline was installed. The phoneline linked the Soviet government, the Kremlin, and the White House. As a backup, a teletypewriter linked Washington, DC to Moscow. In addition, in 1963, the US, the Soviet Unions, and other countries signed the Limited Test Ban

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert Kennedy is a book that details those almost fateful 13 days in October of 1962 that could have resulted in the destruction of mankind. Robert Kennedy was the brother of President John F. Kennedy; he served as the United States Attorney General and “closest cabinet advisor and confidant” during JFK’s presidential administration. The book sets out to provide you detail of just how difficult of a decision the president was tasked with regard to the missiles that Russia was placing in Cuba. It details the difficulty that the Executive Committee was tasked with. The decision whether to invade Cuba in a full on air strike or whether they should establish a blockade, preventing the Russians from placing any additional nuclear weapons on Cuban soil.

The Kennedy Tapes puts together real history and actual conversations directly from the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The book remains true to history and exemplifies how close the U.S. was to a nuclear war. The book brings awareness to millions who may of not known of the Cuban Missile Crisis or those who lived through it without ever really knowing what almost happened. The Cuban Missile Crisis completely changed society during and after the 13 days of fear. Ernest R. May broke the barrier between government and citizens by giving the world the actual tapes that held the truth about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The author didn’t make an impact on the book. The story is mainly passages and transcripts from real recordings from

The Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous of the Cold War, but

From October 16 to October 28 of 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union had a 13-day political and military dispute over the installation of Soviet missiles on the island of Cuba. This dispute was known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. After the failed and humiliating Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban people and their dictator, Fidel Castro, asked for support of the Soviet Union and defensive weapons. President John F. Kennedy took careful consideration into his options, choosing to put a naval “quarantine” around Cuba. Finally, this crisis resulted in a treaty for a ban on nuclear testing and the removing of missiles by both the US and USSR. The Cuban Missile Crisis is a critical point in the history of the Cold War and the closest we have

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13 day standoff in Cuba during the Cold War that struck fear into many American people. Joseph Roblat said, “The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the cuban missile crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble”. Missiles were in Cuba, in range of the U.S.. The world has never come so close to being in a full out Nuclear War. If the Soviets launched one of those missiles, then the U.S. would have retaliated back with the only thing as powerful as a nuclear missile, a nuclear missile. If the world were to have a nuclear war, it could wipe out civilization. The fact that the Soviet Union had the fate

“We’re eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked” (Dean Rusk). The Cuban Missile Crisis put the world on the edge of its seat, and was the closest humanity has ever gotten to full-scale nuclear war. Even though the event lasted a mere two weeks (from October 14-24, 1962), it played a significant role in international politics, and its effects can still be seen today. The Cuban Missile Crisis is significant to current international relations because it proved the importance of the need for information, and the importance of taking risks.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the pinnacle of the Cold War. This crisis was going to start the worst war this world has ever seen. A all out nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union of Russia. The topics we will be talking about in this passage are the discovery of the missiles in Cuba. Then we'll talk about the attempt of the U.S. helping start a revolution in Cuba known as the Bay Of Pigs. Then finally we’ll talk about the agreement that the U.S. and Russia came to that ended the crisis. Therefor we will talk about the discovery, the attempt, and the conclusion of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This investigation gauges the significance of Fidel Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. To be able to assess Fidel’s importance, the events leading up to, during, and following the Cuban Missile Crisis will need to be evaluated. The events will include Castros role leading up to the crisis, during the shooting down of the american U-2 spy plane, and finally the conclusion of the crisis itself. Things like memoirs and history that has been passed down orally are the most common way of learning about Castros significance. There are two sources utilized within this evaluation, Cuban documents, ¨The Mikoyan-Castro Talks, 4-5 November of 1962: the Cuban Version,¨ and Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis and the Soviet Collapse which

On October 16th 1962, a United States U-2 reconnaissance plane took photos of medium-range Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba, confirming that the Soviets had lied to the US despite Khrushchev’s “various private and public assurances” that there were no “surface-to-surface missiles” sent to Cuba (Kennedy 27). This was the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which lasted for the next thirteen days. Six years later, Robert F. Kennedy, the Attorney General at the time and President Kennedy’s brother, wrote a memoir of the event entitled Thirteen Days and I. F. Stone, an investigative journalist, wrote his own article on the subject in 1966. In his account, Robert praises his brother’s abilities to remain calm, actively assess the implications of every possible moves and take in as many viewpoints as possible. Stone, on the other

This adjustment in narrative is very clear even today, as, despite there being “no evidence that any nuclear weapons or guided missiles are now in Cuba” as of July 1961, months after the Bay of Pigs invasion, some sources still place the blame for the Cuban missile crisis on Cuba, declaring that placing missiles in Cuba “was a direct threat to the United States and broke Khrushchev’s pledge to Kennedy that Soviet Military aid for Castro would be purely defensive.” This seems to be a reoccurring theme in the American narrative of the Cuban missile crisis, that the allowance of Soviet missiles was an act of unprovoked aggression on behalf of Cuba, rather than Khrushchev promising to support for Cuba against “unprovoked aggression” from America.

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Missile Scare, was a 2 week period in October of 1962 that was a result of increasing tensions amongst the United States and the Soviet Union. Tension between the US and the USSR is not new and is known as the Cold War, often stated to be a period between 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Intelligence gathered over the span of couple months all seemed to lead to the common conclusion that the Soviet’s are installing offensive nuclear weapons that will be able to reach continental US in mainland Cuba. The “initial” spark seemed to be the awfully failed attempt to invade Cuba, also known as the Bay of Pigs invasion under the Kennedy administration, and the presence of American Jupiter Ballistic missiles in Turkey and Italy. What is interesting about the Cuban Missile crisis is how the Kennedy administration confronted the issue. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top military officials of the United States pushed for a full on invasion, which could trigger a world wide nuclear war. Kennedy wanted to avoid a full on confrontation, making him seem “intelligent but weak”.