The Politics of the Cuban Missile Crisis - New Passage
Political Science
"Was the Cuban crisis the trial-run for thermonuclear war, or the sort of war-by-other-means which leaves the two combatants more anxious to reach a settlement. Was it military or political in nature, and it will it have military or political effects? Now that
the crisis has receded somewhat, and the missiles are dismantled and the bombers on their way home, that is the most serious question of all: how will the crisis be read?"
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