Cuba

HIS 187

Part of the US economy

Briefly indeterminate

Nationalization of oil & sugar, 1960

CIA attempts on Castro

US-backed invasion, Bay of Pigs

Failure at Bay of Pigs

Embargo

Revisiting Cold War geography

Testing freezes

ICBMs

First strike potential

U-2

U-2 photos of Cuba

Missiles

Ranges

Mordant ranges

On the table

I feel you should have made clear that the existence of nuclear bases anywhere is negotiable before we start anything

Adlai Stevenson to John Kennedy, October 17, 1962

ExComm

UN showdown, October 25

ExComm debate 10/26

No deal, just resolution 10/27

there could be no quid pro quo—no deal of this kind could be made. . . . It was completely impossible for NATO to take such a step under the present threatening position of the Soviet Union. . . . If some time elapsed . . . four or five months . . . I was sure these matters could be resolved satisfactorily.

Robert Kennedy to Anatoly Dobrynin, October 27, 1962

The consequences of the story