# The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962

> Follow the discovery of Soviet missiles, the naval quarantine, secret negotiations, and the decisions of October 1962. Consider American, Soviet, and Cuban perspectives and the risks created by incomplete information.

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## Concepts

### Operation Anadyr

**Operation Anadyr** was the code name used by the **Soviet** Union for its Cold War secret operation in 1962 of deploying ballistic missiles, medium-range bombers, and a division of mechanized infantry to Cuba to create an army group that would be able to prevent an invasion of the island by United States forces.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anadyr
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anadyr?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Organization of American States

The **Organization of American States** is an **international organization** founded on 30 April 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_American_States
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_American_States?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro

### Operation Mongoose

**Operation Mongoose**, also known as the **Cuban** Project, was an extensive campaign of terrorist attacks against civilians, and covert operations, carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in Cuba.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Project
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Project?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

### Bay of Pigs Invasion

The **Bay of Pigs Invasion**, also known as Playa Girón in Cuba, after the beach where the battle took place, was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the United States and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed **Fidel Castro**'s Cuban Revolution, clandestinely and directly financed by the U.S. government.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

### Moscow–Washington hotline

The **Moscow–Washington hotline** is a system that allows direct communication between the leaders of the United States and the **Russian** Federation .

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%E2%80%93Washington_hotline
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%E2%80%93Washington_hotline?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

### Alexander Alexeyev (diplomat)

**Alexander** Ivanovich **Alexeyev** was a Soviet intelligence agent who posed first as a journalist and later a diplomat.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Alexeyev_(diplomat)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Alexeyev_(diplomat)?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Rudolf Anderson

**Rudolf Anderson** Jr. was an American **Air Force** major and pilot.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Anderson
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Anderson?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2

### Llewellyn Thompson

**Llewellyn** E. "Tommy" **Thompson** Jr. was an American diplomat.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llewellyn_Thompson
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llewellyn_Thompson?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### McGeorge Bundy

**McGeorge** "Mac" Bundy was an American academic who served as the U.S. National Security Advisor to Presidents **John F. Kennedy** and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 through 1966.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGeorge_Bundy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGeorge_Bundy?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXCOMM
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

### Dean Rusk

David **Dean Rusk** was the United States secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under presidents **John F. Kennedy** and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second-longest serving secretary of state after Cordell Hull from the Franklin Roosevelt administration.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Rusk
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Rusk?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

### Adlai Stevenson II

**Adlai** Ewing **Stevenson** II was an American politician and diplomat who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### U Thant

**Thant**, known honorifically as **U Thant**, was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first Asian to hold the position.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### PGM-19 Jupiter

The **PGM-19 Jupiter** was the first **nuclear armed**, medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) of the United States Air Force (USAF). It was a liquid-propellant rocket using RP-1 fuel and LOX oxidizer, with a single Rocketdyne LR79-NA rocket engine producing 150,000 lbf (670 kN) of thrust.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-19_Jupiter
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-19_Jupiter?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Vasily Arkhipov

**Vasily** Aleksandrovich **Arkhipov**, also transliterated as Vasili Arkhipov, was a vice admiral in the Soviet Navy. He is best remembered for preventing nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Fidel Castro

**Fidel** Alejandro **Castro** Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

### Lockheed U-2

The **Lockheed U-2**, nicknamed the "Dragon Lady", is an American single-engine, high–altitude **reconnaissance aircraft** operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since the 1950s.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### John F. Kennedy

**John** Fitzgerald **Kennedy**, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXCOMM
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

### Nikita Khrushchev

**Nikita** Sergeyevich **Khrushchev** was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Anatoly Dobrynin

**Anatoly** Fyodorovich **Dobrynin** was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and politician. He was the Soviet ambassador to the United States for more than two decades, from 1962 to 1986.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Dobrynin
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Dobrynin?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962

Follow the discovery of Soviet missiles, the naval quarantine, secret negotiations, and the decisions of **October** 1962. Consider American, Soviet, and **Cuban** perspectives and the risks created by incomplete information.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_B-59
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cony
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Beale_(DD-471)

### USS Beale (DD-471)

**Beale** was among the US destroyers involved in signaling and tracking **B-59** during the crisis.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Beale_(DD-471)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Beale_(DD-471)?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### USS Cony

**Cony** was one of the American destroyers that confronted **B-59** during the missile crisis.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cony
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cony?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Soviet submarine B-59

**Soviet submarine B-59** was a Project 641 or Foxtrot-class diesel-electric submarine of the Soviet Navy. B-59 was stationed near Cuba during the 13-day **Cuban** Missile Crisis of October 1962 and was pursued and harassed by United States Navy vessels.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_B-59
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_B-59?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov

### Robert McNamara

Defense Secretary **McNamara** served on ExComm and participated in discussions of quarantine and military options.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_B-59

### Robert F. Kennedy

**Robert** **Kennedy** participated in ExComm and maintained a confidential diplomatic channel with Dobrynin.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### EXCOMM

The Executive Committee of the National Security Council was a body of United States government officials that convened to advise President **John F. Kennedy** during the **Cuban** Missile Crisis in 1962.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXCOMM
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXCOMM?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

## Relationships

- Organization of American States — related_to → Fidel Castro: Organization of American States: Fidel Castro
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Organization of American States: Organization of American States: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Operation Mongoose — related_to → John F. Kennedy: Operation Mongoose: John F. Kennedy
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Operation Mongoose: Operation Mongoose: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Bay of Pigs Invasion — related_to → Fidel Castro: Bay of Pigs Invasion: Fidel Castro
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Bay of Pigs Invasion: Bay of Pigs Invasion: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Moscow–Washington hotline — related_to → John F. Kennedy: Moscow–Washington hotline: John F. Kennedy
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Moscow–Washington hotline: Moscow–Washington hotline: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Operation Anadyr — related_to → Nikita Khrushchev: Operation Anadyr: Nikita Khrushchev
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Operation Anadyr: Operation Anadyr: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Alexander Alexeyev (diplomat) — related_to → Fidel Castro: Alexander Alexeyev (diplomat): Fidel Castro
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Alexander Alexeyev (diplomat): Alexander Alexeyev (diplomat): The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Rudolf Anderson — related_to → Lockheed U-2: Rudolf Anderson: Lockheed U-2
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Rudolf Anderson: Rudolf Anderson: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Llewellyn Thompson — related_to → John F. Kennedy: Llewellyn Thompson: John F. Kennedy
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Llewellyn Thompson: Llewellyn Thompson: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- McGeorge Bundy — related_to → John F. Kennedy: McGeorge Bundy: John F. Kennedy
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → McGeorge Bundy: McGeorge Bundy: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Dean Rusk — related_to → John F. Kennedy: Dean Rusk: John F. Kennedy
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Dean Rusk: Dean Rusk: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Adlai Stevenson II — related_to → John F. Kennedy: Adlai Stevenson II: John F. Kennedy
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Adlai Stevenson II: Adlai Stevenson II: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- U Thant — related_to → John F. Kennedy: U Thant: John F. Kennedy
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → U Thant: U Thant: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Anatoly Dobrynin: Anatoly Dobrynin: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → PGM-19 Jupiter: PGM-19 Jupiter: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Soviet submarine B-59: Soviet submarine B-59: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Vasily Arkhipov: Vasily Arkhipov: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Lockheed U-2: Lockheed U-2: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → EXCOMM: EXCOMM: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Fidel Castro: Fidel Castro: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → Nikita Khrushchev: Nikita Khrushchev: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days in October 1962 — related_to → John F. Kennedy: John F. Kennedy: people, places, and context for the episode.
- Soviet submarine B-59 — related_to → Vasily Arkhipov: Arkhipov opposed use of the submarine’s nuclear torpedo; detailed accounts of the…
- Soviet submarine B-59 — related_to → USS Beale (DD-471): Beale was among the US destroyers involved in signaling and tracking B-59…
- Soviet submarine B-59 — related_to → USS Cony: Cony was one of the American destroyers that confronted B-59 during…
- EXCOMM — related_to → Anatoly Dobrynin: Dobrynin met Robert Kennedy during the final negotiations over…
- EXCOMM — related_to → Robert McNamara: Defense Secretary McNamara served on ExComm and participated in discussions of quarantine…
- EXCOMM — related_to → Robert F. Kennedy: Robert Kennedy participated in ExComm and maintained a confidential diplomatic…