Munton, D: Cuban Missile Crisis

Contents ; New to the Second Edition Acknowledgments ; List of Acronyms ; Dramatis Personae (and Positions in October 1962) ; Introduction: The REAL Thirteen Days ; Chapter 1: Background to the Crisis ; U.S.-Cuban Relations in Historical Perspective ; The Bay of Pigs and Operation Mongoose ; The Soviet Decision to Deploy ; Chapter 2: Deployment and Discovery ; Details of the Deployment ; The Intelligence Game of Cat and Mouse ; Warnings Too Late ; On the Eve of Crisis ; Chapter 3: From Discovery to Blockade ; The Storm Before the Calm ; Narrowing the Options ; Decision ; Chapter 4: The Perfect Storm ; The Speech ; Carrots and Sticks ; Khrushchev and Kennedy Waver ; The Crisis Heats Up ; The Dobrynin Meeting ; Climax and Resolution ; Chapter 5: Aftermath ; Removing the Missiles from Cuba ; The Cuban Bomber Crisis ; The Domestic and International Public Reaction ; Steps Toward Detente: The Hot Line and Test Ban ; Conclusion: The Cuban Missile Crisis Fifty Years Later ; Bibliographic Essay ; Early Treatments of the Crisis ; The Second Wave: "Critical Oral History" ; Recent Accounts ; Background and History ; Aftermath and Lessons ; Document Collections and Websites ; Film ; Index

Don Munton is Professor and Founding Chair of International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia.David A. Welch is CIGI Chair of Global Security and Interim Director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.