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Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962

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Topic: Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962
Posted By: Gallipoli
Subject: Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962
Date Posted: 24-Aug-2004 at 07:26

Here are some useful links for the most important crisis of the 20th century.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/ - http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/

http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/r/x/rxb297/CUBA/MAIN.HTML - http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/r/x/rxb297/CUBA/MAIN.HTML

http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/ - http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/

Also try to watch the movie "Thirteen Days" by Metropolitan Films and New Line Cinema. Kevin Costner is pretty good.

"It shall be the policy of this nation, to regard any nuclear missile, launched from Cuba on any state in the western hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliotary response upon the Soviet Union"

President John F Kennedy

October 22 1962

White House "Adress to the nation"




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Posted By: demon
Date Posted: 24-Aug-2004 at 09:02
Interesting.  I will read the rest soon.

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Posted By: Gallipoli
Date Posted: 24-Aug-2004 at 09:05
It is a very interesting issue to cover...I shall post more stuff soon

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Posted By: Jalisco Lancer
Date Posted: 24-Aug-2004 at 10:17

 

  This crisis later on drived on the cisma between the Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.

  Che Guevara was opposed to remove the misiles from the Island and felt betrayed by Kruschev. That's why he had approaches with China.

 



Posted By: Gallipoli
Date Posted: 26-Aug-2004 at 09:42

During the 1960s a lot of people built Nuke Shelters. For example, there is a huge Nuke Shelter in every building in Switzerland AND I heard from an old government official that it used to be mandatory for people to have Nuke Shelters. These all concrete "panic rooms" have 3 or 4 layers of thick cement and heavy doors. We use our shelter as a basement like all other people in the building.

Imagine this: "The Swiss turned out to be the only nation which could survive the nuclear destruction"  What would there be left over to survive for?



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Posted By: Gallipoli
Date Posted: 27-Aug-2004 at 06:45

"All free men, wherever they may live; are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words; Ich bin ein Berliner"

28 June 1963/West Berlin

 



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Posted By: ihsan
Date Posted: 30-Aug-2004 at 15:35

JFK was surely an interesting man, too bad he was assasinated

the most important crisis of the 20th century.

I would say "the most important crisis of the second half of the 20th century".



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