Cuban Missile Crisis
Two men attempt to out-bluff each other,
though only one can win.
Like many crises, the Cuban Missile Crisis blew up for complicated, inter-related issues, and came to a head in highly erratic and unpredictable circumstances. The men who would ultimately steer the world through what so easily have turned into a devastating nuclear conflict did so essentially guessing what those on the opposing side of the conflict were thinking.
It was a crisis of barely controlled chaos, luck and good judgement which rejected the military and intelligence models (meant to prevent such a situation spinning out of control) and which themselves relied on a certain belief in the willingness of those on the other side to do the right thing.
Game theory, fashionable during the decades that followed, was at the heart of the predictive negotiations that took place during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but so too was courage, shared humanity and instinctive wit on the part of those involved.
Thankfully.
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BBC History File: Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis. Part of the excellent BBC Learning Zone series that supports the Modern World GCSE syllabus.
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The history of the Cuban Missile Crisis - Matthew A. Jordan
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Imagine going about your life knowing that, at any given moment, you and everyone you know could be wiped out without warning at the push of a button. This was the reality for millions of people during the forty-five year period after World War II now known as the Cold War. Matthew A. Jordan explains the history behind the peak of all this panic — the thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Lesson by Mathew A. Jordan, animation by Patrick Smith.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union faced off at sea when it was discovered that the Soviets were constructing nuclear missile bases in Cuba. The tense standoff for 13 days was known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. An aggressive blockade (termed a "quarantine") by the US Navy compelled the Soviets to withdraw the missiles, and potential nuclear armageddon was averted. This video was commissioned in 2012 by the Naval Historical Foundation on the 50th Anniversary of the Crisis. The video was produced by R.H. Rositzke and Associates.
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An eye for an eye, a missile for a missile--that's how the saying goes, right? So thought the Soviet Union and the United States in the early fall of 1962, kicking off a 13-day staring contest that scared the world.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
The Cuban missile crisis was the moment during the Cold War when the two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war.
Secret communications and miscommunications which played out between the White House and the Kremlin made the crisis a unique event.
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Day 9 Cuban Missile Crisis - Blockade starts and low altitude flybys over Cuba
On October 24, 1962 the US led blockade on Cuba goes into effect, but It's not the be the showdown that it looks like! In the same time the US Navy starts flying RF8 Crusader reconnaissance jets 400 feet over the missile sites on Cuba, to see what's really going on. As the jets roar over the heads of the Cuban and Soviet soldiers, the crisis deepens.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis Explained In 20 Minutes
The Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the world has ever come to nuclear apocalypse. An ever-escalating arms race had led to the deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba, which were now prepped and ready to fire on Washington, New York, and almost the entire Eastern Seaboard. The defining event of the Cold War, it would see the world’s leading superpowers fight in a dangerous battle for nuclear superiority just 90 miles from the American coast. For 13 days in October 1962, American President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev would engage in a battle of wills, where one wrong move could lead to global destruction. Time was ticking, and neither side knew how events were about to unfold.
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Intro: 0:00
The Great Missile Gamble 1:15
Eyeball to Eyeball 5:23
Preparing for War 9:30
Black Saturday 11:40
Resolution 18:10
Epilogue 20:05
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Kennedy served as the 35th President of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. In 1961, Kennedy authorised an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro with the Bay of Pigs Invasion. In October, US spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis period of tensions nearly resulted in global thermonuclear conflict.
John Kennedy
Khrushchev was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Chairman of its Council of Ministers (Premier) from 1958 to 1964. Hoping to rely on missiles for national defence, Khrushchev ordered major cuts in conventional forces and as a result of the crisis was removed from power in 1964 by his party colleagues. He died in 1971 of a heart attack.
Nikita Khrushchev
A Cuban revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and as President from 1976 to 2008, Castro was a Marxist-Leninist and Cuban nationalist that also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. The US unsuccessfully attempted to remove Castro by assassination, economic blockade and counter-revolution (including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961).
Fidel Castro
McNamara, US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy. McNamara became a close adviser to Kennedy and advocated the use of a blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy and McNamara also instituted a Cold War defence strategy of flexible response, which anticipated the need for military responses short of massive retaliation.
Robert McNamara
An American lawyer, politician and diplomat, Stevenson served in different government positions and in 1945 also served on the committee that created the United Nations. After President Kennedy's election, Stevenson was appointed as US Ambassador to the UN. There he challenged the Soviet UN Ambassador to deny his country was stationing missiles in Cuba at a crucial juncture during the crisis.
Adlai Stevenson
United States Air Force General “Bombs away” LeMay is credited with designing and then implementing an effective, if controversial, bombing campaign in the Pacific during World War II. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1961 to 1965 and in this role called for the bombing of Cuban missile sites during the crisis (which was resisted by Kennedy and his inner circle).
Curtis Emerson LeMay