Unpublished Paper
Cuban Missile Crisis - How Intelligence Analysts May Have Saved the World.docx
(2016)
Abstract
In October of 1962, the Cold War was at its height. Since the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union had faced each other, with a tremendous array of military might, across a no man’s land in Eastern Europe. The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with its potent nuclear warhead had then brought both homelands under the threat of Hiroshima to the nth degree. An ICBM launched from the Soviet Union could reach U.S. cities in less than 30 minutes, as could U.S. missiles aimed at Soviet cities. Never before, in the history of conflict, had two nations faced each other with the capacity to bring upon each other total annihilation.[1] The six years of the Second World War, with its over 60 million deaths, would pale in comparison to the first hour of a thermonuclear war.
[1]Poirier, A., (February 2008) The Cuban Missile Crisis, unpublished, Charles Town, WV
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring April, 2016
Citation Information
Albert E Poirier. "Cuban Missile Crisis - How Intelligence Analysts May Have Saved the World.docx" (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/albert_poirier/11/