National missile defense

provided by Oleg Penkovsky during the Cuban missile crisis, it is of utmost important to examine the climate of the intelligence community in the United States leading up to the crisis. On September 19th, 1962, about a month before the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Special National Intelligence Estimate (SNIE) on “The military Buildup in Cuba” considered the possibility of the Soviet’s deployment of medium and intermediate-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs and IRBMs) to Cuba. The…

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis As the title states, the book is a memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis through the lense of the White House. In span of 13 days, the world faced one of the most critical event in history. The stakes were nuclear war, which could have obliterated much of the life on earth from nuclear fallout. In a nutshell, after World War II, the two superpowers in the world were, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. Without…

The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred over 13 days (October 16th to 28th, 1962) during the Cold War, the post-WWII state of tension between the West (led by the United States) and the Communist East (led by the USSR). The Cold War was a war of ideologies, fueled by US fear of Communist expansion into the Western hemisphere. The USSR’s alliance with Cuba was seen as a communist ‘invasion’ and met with panic. Since the introduction of nuclear weaponry to the world stage at the end of WWII, the US and…

27. Cuban Missile crisis Around 1960, the U.S was planning to put a naval blockade in Cuba and they wanted to remove all of the nuclear warfare from the area and prevent further creation of these missiles. But a secret meeting between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev led to an idea of placing multiple missile launch bases along the coast of Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S controlled Florida. When U.S air force planes had spotted these missile bases. While President Kennedy was working on…

Counter Strike Diplomacy In 1962, the Soviet Union housed a nearby arsenal of nuclear missiles within he confines of Cuba, immediate action was required, post haste. President Kennedy 's cabinet rallied for him to give the green light on an operation that entailed sending a precise air strike that planned to dispose of the alleged nuclear weapons, before the Soviet Union had a chance to make good use of them. However, with the firearms ' combat readiness still essentially in question, and…

This led to the Khrushchev installing nuclear missiles in Cuba, his reason being “to balance the missile gap between the USA and the USSR, and to prevent any further America invasion on Cuba.” He believed that the only way to prevent Cuba from further USA invasion was to install missiles in Cuba claiming it would protect the Cuban national pride. However earlier in 1959, President Kennedy had already ordered US intermediate-range ballistic missiles –Jupiter and Thor– to be installed in Turkey,…

the president of the United States who saved the entire world from destruction, while thermonuclear war was imminent during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This anti-communist, anti-Soviet president led the United States through a period of superiority against the Soviet Union after the president influenced Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to remove Soviet nuclear missiles situated on the island of Cuba located merely 90 miles off the coast of Florida. For generations, President Kennedy was hailed as a…

Robert F. Kennedy's memoir of the Cuban missile crisis that occurs from October 16 to October 28,1962.This event is precipitated when Soviet offensive weapons are found in Cuba, contrary to public and private promises by Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev.President John F. Kennedy an Executive Committee of the National Security Council or "Ex Comm," whose members talk, argue, and fight their way to giving him recommendations to act on. One faction led by Defense Secretary McNamara favors quarantine…

learning that the Soviet Union secretly placed missiles facing the United States in Cuba, John F. Kennedy said “It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.” The U.S discovered the Soviet’s missiles when an American plane took photos of Soviet soldiers setting up missiles in Cuba that were in line with southern Florida. The Soviet’s decision to secretly place nuclear missiles in Cuba pointing toward the U.S initiated…

Dietz's conclusions in the Yates case because of his testimony in another trial involving a Texas mother who killed two of her children. Questions have added intrigue to a case in which prosecutors' initial decision to seek the death penalty ignited a national debate over how mental illness and postpartum depression are viewed in criminal…