12th issue for Ovi history with a very critical and dangerous moment in modern history with a lot of ...warnings!
The Cuban Missile Crisis effectively began on October 14, 1962, when a U.S. U-2 spy plane captured photographic evidence of Soviet nuclear missile launch sites under construction in Cuba. This discovery led to a tense thirteen-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union that brought the two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war, with the crisis officially starting when President John F. Kennedy was briefed on the missiles on October 16.
The Cuban missile crisis marked the climax of an acutely antagonistic period in U.S.-Soviet relations. The crisis also marked the closest point that the world had ever come to global nuclear war. It is generally believed that the Soviets’ humiliation in Cuba played an important part in Khrushchev’s fall from power in October 1964 and in the Soviet Union’s determination to achieve, at the least, a nuclear parity with the United States.
This issue of Ovi History explores the critical choices made from the then leadership while also examines the historical and diplomatic echoes that connect the Cuban missiles crisis to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Also in this issue two historical fiction short stories, one from James O. Miller and one from Lucas Durand.
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Thanos Kalamidas
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