FORTY YEARS AFTER THE MISSILE CRISIS
Russian roulette in Cuba
Exactly 40 years ago the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Only luck and negotiation averted a megaton conflict. The events and behaviours of that crisis, from the cynicism of the hawks in the United States to the US manipulation of the UN, is eerily like the present one over Iraq.
by Daniele Ganser
PRESIDENT Dwight Eisenhower feared that communism would spread across Latin America in 1959, after Fidel Castro and Che Guevara triumphantly entered Havana. Dictator Fulgencio Batista, who had been an ally of Washington during the cold war, had been overthrown by a guerrilla war supported by (...)
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