Thirteen days
by Robert F. Kennedy, Robert Francis McNamara, Harold Macmillan · first published 1969
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…civilization came extremely close to destruction at least a few times, and it came down to a few individuals that talked others down. It could have very easily gone the other way. I highly recommend you read Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy for a largely first hand account, parts of it are chilling.
on “New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours” ↗After you read Thirteen Days, you should probably read The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality by Sheldon Stern[1], former historian at the JFK Library. He argues convincingly that Thirteen Days perpetuated…
on “New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours” ↗…disagree, but -- it's "standard" only if you've been paying close attention. Because the original "standard" version ("encroaching communists") which I first read in Bobby Kennedy's everywhere-available book Thirteen Days was accepted for decades -- up through the 1980s IIRC. This article (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/01/the-real...) pegs the date where the old standard story was rendered untenable,…
on “The H-Bombs in Turkey” ↗Author namechecks Thirteen Days, the harrowing account of the Cuban Missile Crisis and a world on the brink of annihilation. There is also a terrific movie adaptation. In it, Secdef McNamara talks about how the positioning of submarines…
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