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military has only been at DEFCON 2 twice--during the Cuban Missile Crisis and at the beginning of the Gulf War.

Thirteen Days in Shelby, Michigan: During the height of the Cold War, the constant threat of nuclear war existed between the United States and the Soviet Union. While radar stations throughout Michigan helped defend the country's northern border from attack, nothing could prepare the Great Lakes State for a 13-day nuclear standoff in October 1962--the Cuban Missile Crisis

George's The Cuban Missile Crisis, the event becomes the stage for a multiplicity of visions of nuclear annihilation that, according to the author, had already been structured in the collective mentality worldwide.

Alice L. George: The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Threshold of Nuclear War

Shannon Randall, aka JFK, says: "I hadn't heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis before we started this.

AN ACT OF WAR... Pupils take school play to brink by retelling Cuban Missile Crisis

Contrasting the tapes to accounts elaborated in hindsight, Stern examines and dismisses the expedient memoirs of functionaries like Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy, but also of John Kennedy's brother Robert in Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York: W.W.

The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myth Versus Reality

KRUSCHEV V KENNEDY: Close to war in the Cuban Missile Crisis

Launch missile ... and go home

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation from Oct.

Disaster averted; JFK Library exhibit examines Cuban Missile Crisis

The truth about the Cuban missile crisis is that Kennedy conceded something very substantial but all those around him misled public opinion for decades about what had been conceded.

A nowhere man

These pressures, plus a desire to improve U.S.-Soviet relations in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, led to the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, in space, and under water.

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Talk of fingers on the button brings to mind Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis. His Roman Catholism did not cause this crisis and his faith had no discernable effect on foreign policy or his racy private life.

No threat to peace; 32 views 7, 2012

And it should help concentrate our minds that this month is the 50th anniversary of the most dangerous moment in modern American history, the Cuban missile crisis.

Would you trust Mitt or Barack in a crisis moment?