On the morning of Tuesday: Cuban interrogation report, November 8, 1962, Havana 2002, Documentos de los Archivos Cubanos, Vera interview.
It was clear from the photographs: Blue Moon mission 5035, November 2, 1962, NARA.
"within 11/2 to 2 hours": Moscow telegram 1115 to Secretary of State, October 28, 1962, SDX.
With time running out: Troyanovsky, 252; Taubman, 575-6.
sounded to him like a "shameful retreat": Sergei Khrushchev, 367.
"If possible": Troyanovsky, 253.
"I feel like a new man": O'Donnell and Powers, 341; Beschloss, 541.
"I could hardly believe": Alsop and Bartlett, "In Time of Crisis," Saturday Evening Post, December 8, 1962.
"felt like laughing": Wilson OH, JFKL.
"a rose growing out": Abel, 180.
between "one in three": Sorensen, Kennedy, 705.
"a charade": JCS Poole notes.
"an insincere proposal": NSAW Cuba.
"It's the greatest defeat": Beschloss, 544.
"Son of a bitch!": Franqui, 194, Thomas, 524. For the Castro account, see Blight et al., Cuba on the Brink, 214.
Alekseev had been up late: Alekseev interview, CNN CW.
The report reaching the North American: For a full account of this incident, see Sagan, 127-33. Sagan and other writers have given an apparently erroneous time: NORAD logs give the time as 1608Z, or 11:08 a.m. Washington time--Sagan Collection, NSAW.
"Everyone knows who were": Summary record of ExComm meeting, FRUS, Vol. XI, 283.
"I don't think either of them": Sorensen interview, CNN CW.
"a victory for us": Reeves, 424.
"At last, I am going": Instructions to Dobrynin, October 28, 1962, NSAW; Dobrynin, 89-90.
"All of them?": Gribkov and Smith, Operation ANADYR, 72.
"Nikita, Nikita": Mario Vargas Llosa report, Le Monde, November 23, 1962.
"watches, boots": CIA memorandum, The Crisis: USSR/Cuba, November 10, 1962, CREST.
"Some experts and technicians": Telegram from Czechoslovak ambassador, October 31, 1962, Havana 2002, vol. 2.
"First you urged me": Yesin et al., Strategicheskaya Operatsiya Anadyr, 57.
"to tighten your belts": K. S. Karol, Guerrillas in Power (New York: Hill & Wang, 1970), 274.
"This is the night": RFK, 110.
AFTERWORD
"dazzled the world": Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), 851.
"Adlai wanted a Munich": Alsop and Bartlett, "In Time of Crisis," Saturday Evening Post, December 8, 1962.
"a dove from the start": Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, 529.
"a thought of breathtaking ingenuity": Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, 828.
"the enormous tension that gripped us": Dobrynin, 83.
Most books on the missile crisis: An exception is The Limits of Safety (1993), by Scott Sagan, a study about accidents involving nuclear weapons.
"100 per cent successful": History of 4080th Strategic Wing, October 1962, FOIA.
"an inner sense of confidence": Alsop and Bartlett, "In Time of Crisis."
a policy of "progressive squeeze-and-talk": Kaplan, 334.
"deeply influenced": Clark M. Clifford, Counsel to the President (New York: Random House, 1991), 411.
"Very gung-ho fellows": Michael Charlton and Anthony Moncrieff, Many Reasons Why: The American Involvement in Vietnam (New York: Hill & Wang, 1978), 82, cited in Eliot A. Cohen, "Why We Should Stop Studying the Cuban Missile Crisis," The National Interest (Winter 1985-86).
"You got away with it": Reeves, 424.
"bright and energetic": Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, 548.
"incompatible with Soviet practice": NIE 85-3-62, September 19, 1962; for postmortem, see February 4, 1963, memo from President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board in McAuliffe, 362-71.
"We all inhabit": JFK Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963.
"plain dumb luck": Reeves, 425; see also "Acheson Says Luck Saved JFK on Cuba," WP, January 19, 1969.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael Dobbs was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and educated at the University of York, with fellowships at Princeton and Harvard. He is a reporter for The Washington Post, where he spent much of his career as a foreign correspondent covering the collapse of communism. His Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire was a runner-up for the 1997 PEN award for nonfiction. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
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One minute to midnight : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war / by Michael Dobbs.
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