Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 / Edition 2

by Laurence Chang, Peter Kornbluh, National Security National Security Archive

Overview

Thirty-six years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, these declassified documents stand as testament to just how dangerously close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962, and challenge the official history of the event as a model of crisis management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565844742
Publisher:	New Press, The
Publication date:	01/17/1999
Series:	National Security Archive Documents Series
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	429
Sales rank:	895,612
Product dimensions:	0.93(w) x 8.25(h) x 11.00(d)

Editorial Reviews

We came closer to war than anyone wants to admit. This is the first in a series of document readers to be published by The New Press (450 West 41st Street, 6th Fl., New York, NY 10036) in collaboration with the National Security Archive, founded in 1985 with the mission of advocating openness in government. The book evolved from a six-year project to obtain, organize, and disseminate the declassified records of the Cuban missile crisis, an effort that required systematic Freedom of Information Act requests and a lawsuit against the State Department. Reproductions of 83 documents are presented chronologically, in four introduced sections. Prefatory material includes a summary and a glossary of people and organizations; end matter includes a chronology and a bibliography, but no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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