Blundering on the brink: The secret history and unlearned lessons of the Cuban missile crisis - NewsHawks

Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok THERE aren’t enough palm trees, the Soviet general thought to himself. It was July 1962, and Igor Statsenko, the 43-year-old Ukrainian-born commander of the Red Army’s missile division, found himself inside a helicopter, flying over central and western Cuba. Below him lay a rugged landscape, with few roads and little […]

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