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By David Robarge
CreateSpace
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This history of the U-2's replacement provides an accessible overview of the A-12's development and use as an intelligence collector. The author has tried to make the narrative informative to lay readers while retaining enough technical detail to satisfy aeronautics and engineering readers. He has used sources listed in the bibliography and extensive files on the A-12 program in CIA Archives. This book has been augmented with a few recently declassified documents, including the designer's own history of the project and a list of other documents now available thanks to the Freedom of Information Act. |
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By U.S. Government
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This up-to-date and informative CD-ROM provides a unique and complete collection of documents about the October 1962 Cuban Missile crisis, with newly declassified documents, intelligence reports, histories and reports from many agencies and sources: White House, Department of Defense, NSA, CIA, Navy, Air Force, and more. These reports provide important new information on this historic moment in world history. There is extensive coverage of every aspect of the confrontation between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. involving President John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, and Khrushchev. According to Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs, in May 1962 he conceived the idea of placing intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba as a means of countering an emerging lead of the United States in developing and deploying strategic missiles. He also presented the scheme as a means of protecting Cuba from another United States-sponsored invasion, such as the failed attempt at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. After obtaining Fidel Castro's approval, the Soviet Union worked quickly and secretly to build missile installations in Cuba. On October 16, President Kennedy was shown reconnaissance photographs of Soviet missile installations under construction in Cuba. After seven days of guarded and intense debate in the administration, during which Soviet diplomats denied that installations for offensive missiles were being built in Cuba, President Kennedy, in a televised address on October 22, announced the discovery of the installations and proclaimed that any nuclear missile attack from Cuba would be regarded as an attack by the Soviet Union and would be responded to accordingly. He also imposed a naval quarantine on Cuba to prevent further Soviet shipments of offensive military weapons from arriving there. During the crisis, the two sides exchanged many letters and other communications, both formal and "back channel." Khrushchev sent letters to Kennedy on October 23 and 24 indicating the deterrent nature of the missiles in Cuba and the peaceful intentions of the Soviet Union. On October 26, Khrushchev sent Kennedy a long rambling letter seemingly proposing that the missile installations would be dismantled and personnel removed in exchange for United States assurances that it or its proxies would not invade Cuba. On October 27, another letter to Kennedy arrived from Khrushchev, suggesting that missile installations in Cuba would be dismantled if the United States dismantled its missile installations in Turkey. The American administration decided to ignore this second letter and to accept the offer outlined in the letter of October 26. Khrushchev then announced on October 28 that he would dismantle the installations and return them to the Soviet Union, expressing his trust that the United States would not invade Cuba. Further negotiations were held to implement the October 28 agreement, including a United States demand that Soviet light bombers also be removed from Cuba, and to specify the exact form and conditions of United States assurances not to invade Cuba. |
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By Francis Gary with Curt Gentry Powers
Holt Rinehart Winston
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By Francis Gary, with Gentry, Curt Powers
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By Francis Gary] [Powers
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By WILLIAM TAUBMAN
Macmillan Reference USA
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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Russian History, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The length of the article is 283 words. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Providing a comprehensive discussion of the people, politics, economics, religion, culture, and social systems of Russia, this work spans the time from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation (among the ancient Eastern Slavic tribes) to the end of czarist Russia and on through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. It provides the necessary information for readers to obtain a greater understanding of and appreciation for Russia in all of its many spheres. |
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