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Cuban Missile Crisis
October 11, 2022
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Jon Wolfsthal
We Never Learned the Key Lesson From the Cuban Missile Crisis
Putin says he’ll do whatever it takes in Ukraine. Biden is warning of “Armageddon.” Sixty years after the U.S.–Soviet standoff over Cuba, why is nuclear war still an ever-present worry?
April 16, 2021
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Andre Pagliarini
The Book That Stopped an Outbreak of Nuclear War
A new history of the Cuban missile crisis emphasizes how close the world came to destruction—and how severe a threat the weapons still pose.
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