Lessons of October
Historians, political scientists, policy-makers and the Cuban missile crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3694412 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Len Scott, Steve Smith (0000-0002-0607-2393) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 659-684 |
| Publication date | 1994-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2624552 |
| OpenAlex | W2322303885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 has been accorded unique status in the history of the Cold War, generally supposed to represent the occasion on which the superpowers came closest to nuclear war and also to demonstrate the benefits of firmness and control in crisis management. Drawing on evidence made available only recently, through a series of conferences involving both scholars of and participants in the crisis, and through newly accessible archive material, the authors of this article call the received wisdom about the crisis into question, highlighting very different implications for current and future policy. They further challenge the very possibility of arriving at any one definitive version of the events of the crisis period
Cold war · Crisis management · Economic history · Missile · Period (music) · Political crisis · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cuban History and Society · History · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
Exploding the Powder Keg Myth
The Evolution of International Security Studies
Modeling covert offensive cyber engagement decisions left of launch against limited ballistic missile fires
The unbearable lightness of luck
The agent's logics of action
When Empathy Failed
Nuclearism, human rights and constructions of security (part 1)
The British government's view of the Cuban missile crisis
New sources on Soviet decision making during the 1968 Czechoslovak crisis
The Cuban missile crisis
Constructing National Interests
Understanding the Atomic Bomb and the Japanese Surrender
What is British nuclear culture? Understanding Uranium 235
Decolonizing the Cuban Missile Crisis
| Citations per year | 0.45 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2025 (31) |
| Highly cited | No |