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Revisited on the 40th Anniversity
October marked the 401 anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, in which the United States and the Soviet Union came chillingly close to nuclear war over the placement of Soviet strategic weapons in Cuba.
Continuing their exhaustive, oral history examination of the crisis, George Washington University's National Security Archive and Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies co-sponsored a conference in Havana October 11-13 that brought together U.S., Soviet, and Cuban officials and scholars.
In this special section,...