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Date(s)
- 1962 Sep - Dec (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Newspaper cuttings and articles relating to the Cuban missile crisis, Oct 1962, including US imposition of a partial blockade of Cuba, 22 Oct 1962; publication of US military intelligence photographs of missile sites in Cuba, 24 Oct 1962; US imposition of a total blockade of Cuba, 24 Oct 1962; negotiations between U Thant, Secretary-General of the UN, and US and Soviet delegates to the UN on Cuba, 26 Oct 1962; article by Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, entitled 'Can nuclear war be prevented' from New Statesman, 26 Oct 1962; announcement by Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Soviet Prime Minister, for Soviet supply ships to avoid US blockaded area around Cuba, 27 Oct 1962; speculation on US invasion of Cuba, 27 Oct 1962; announcement by Khrushchev of the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba and the dismantling of the launch sites, 28 Oct 1962; article by Karl Ernest Meyer entitled 'Back from the abyss' from New Statesman, 2 Nov 1962. 1 file