Thirteen Days A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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“On Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962, In a while after nine o’clock President Kennedy known as and asked me to come to the White House. He said that we were facing great trouble. In a while afterward, in his place of business, he told me that a U-2 had just finished a photographic mission and that the Intelligence Community had develop into convinced that Russia used to be placing missiles and atomic weapons in Cuba. “That used to be the beginning of the Cuban Missile crisis – a disagreement between the two giant atomic nations, the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. which brought the world to the abyss of nuclear destruction and the end of mankind.” Thus the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy started his account, on this intensely moving and dramatic document of the agonizing events of those thirteen days when The united states confronted Russian in the Caribbean – the Russians raced to establish an atomic capability that would threaten all of the American continent and The united states mobilized her military and diplomatic forces in a supreme effort to prevent the establishment of intercontinental missiles in Cuba.

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