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The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisis

  • Written by Renata Keller, Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Reno
The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during the Cuban missile crisisA map prepared by the Defense Department in 1962 shows potential ranges of Soviet ballistic missiles from Cuba. Department of Defense Cuban Missile Crisis briefing materials/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

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