Missiles in Cuba

The causes and consequences of the 1962 crisis as well as a day-by-day narrative of the confrontation, based on up-to-date scholarship and newly released documents. American Ways Series.

Mark J. White teaches American history at Eastern Illinois University. He has edited The Kennedys and Cuba: The Declassified Documentary History and other studies in American diplomatic history.

Part 1 Preface ix Part 2 BACKGROUND TO CRISIS 3 Chapter 3 Policy toward Cuba in the pre-Kennedy years. JFK's political backgroud and foreign policy views. 1960 presidential campaign and its aftermath. Bay of Pigs. Military contingency plans. Operation Mongoose. CIA attempts to assassinate Castro. JFK's use of di Part 4 THE SOCIETS ACT: OPERATION ANADYR 30 Chapter 5 Why Khrushchev placed nuclear weapons in Cuba. Castro's motives for accepting the missles. The start of Operation Anadyr. Part 6 AN AUTUMN OF DISCONTENT 56 Chapter 7 Soviet outlook and strategy in the fall of 1962. Cuban hints that missles were being sent. Republican attacks on kennedy. Congressional and media pressure. Role played by U.S. intelligence. JFK's public stance on Cuba. Jupiter missles in Turkey. Accelerat Part 8 WEEK ONE: HOW TO RESPOND 79 Chapter 9 Day-by-day in the crisis, from the day JFK was informed that nuclear weapons were in Cuba until the day he announced his intention to blocade the island. Part 10 WEEK TWO: HOW TO DEFUSE 107 Chapter 11 Day-by-day, examining the road to a settlement. Part 12 AFTERMATH AND CONCLUSION 146 Chapter 13 Problems in implementing the settlement. Long-term impact of the missile crisis. Conclusions. Part 14 A Note on Sources 157 Part 15 Index 165