NPIHP is pleased to announce a new publication by Senior Adviser Martin J. Sherwin.
One Step from Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50--in Search of Historical Perspective provides a detailed, but concise historical overview of the Cuban Missile Crisis and its historiography. Sherwin explains in part that "The crisis was the transformative event in U.S.-Soviet and U.S.-Cuban Cold War relations. It not only assured Castro's survival (the putative aim of the Soviet deployment), but it reset the unstated rules of the U.S.-Soviet nucelar relationship."
The article is featured on the cover of the Fall 2012 edition of Prologue, the magazine of the U.S. National Archives. Read the full article on the .