Cuban Missile Crisis Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Thirteen Days.

Cuban Missile Crisis Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Thirteen Days.
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Thirteen Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Summary: A book review and analysis of Robert F. Kennedy's "Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert Kennedy." The facts about the crisis of nuclear missiles in Cuba are described.
Robert F. Kennedy's chilling account of his experiences with his brother, President John F. Kennedy over thirteen days in October of 1962 give an idea to the reader of just how alarmingly close our country came to nuclear war. Kennedy sums up the Cuban Missile Crisis as "a confrontation between two atomic nations...which brought the world to the abyss of nuclear destruction and the end of mankind."1 The author's purpose for writing this memoir seems to be to give readers an idea of the danger confronted during the Cuban Missile Crisis and to reflect on the lessons we should learn from it as a country, and for future members of government.

The Cuban Missile Crisis began with a set of photographs taken over Cuba by an American pilot.2 These photographs showed that Russians were building missile bases in Cuba and placing missiles and atomic weapons there that were...

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