Martin J. Sherwin

Sherwin, George Mason University Professor of History, is the author of Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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JFK's Key Decisions in Cuban Missile Crisis

On Tuesday morning, October 16, 1962 President John F. Kennedy awoke to a political and security nightmare. At 9 A.M., McGeorge Bundy, his National Security Adviser, informed him that a U-2 reconnaissance mission over Cuba...

By Martin J. Sherwin
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