Just about anyone with the slightest connection to the Cuban Missile Crisis 53 years ago has penned their recollections, including me. But few of those who were around then, and certainly subsequent generations, have much recall of a simultaneous conflict a world away. That one could have drawn the United States into war with the country then commonly called Communist China just as the U.S. was on the edge of nuclear war with the Soviet Union.RELATED LINKSCuban Missile Crisis: memories of a young reporter
All these years later, the Cuban Missile Crisis is still studied for lessons in statecraft and …read more
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