Cuban+Missile+Crisis



The following resources will help you when researching your individuals for the Cuban Missile Crisis project as well as for gathering background info on the crisis itself.

TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY []

Audio Files/Transcript of crisis []

The players of the crisis []

Primary source documents from the crisis []

Cold War Virtual Archive (lots of primary sources) []

National Security Archive (minute by minute account of the crisis [|http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/]

JFK Library-Missile Crisis []

State Department declassified information []

Library of Congress [] Translated letter from Krushchev to Kennedy sent during the Crisis.

Avalon Project []

For more info from the Russian Perspective. This will require some digging around but there is a lot here.

Wilson Center []

Detailed analysis of documents released from the Russian archives regarding the crisis.

More russian documents []

Primary Source link []

The following print resources, which we have in the library, will provide much needed information from the Russian perspective on the CMC:

Allyn, Bruce J. __Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse__. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.

Dobbs, Michael. __One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Krushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War__. New York: Vintage, 2009.

Fursenko, Aleksandr; Naftali, Timothy. __One Hell of A Gamble__ W.W Norton & Co., New York: 1997.

Gribkov, Anatoli I. __Operation Anadyr: US and Soviet Generals Recount the Cuban Missille Crisis__. New York: Edition Q, 1993.