Nuclear Folly (Plokhy, 2021)
1962 · Resource
Serhii Plokhy's history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the Soviet archives — Anadyr's improvisations, the Presidium's second thoughts, and how often blind luck stood in for judgement on both sides.
On these timelines: Resources: Combined, Popular history books
Around 1962
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Suez Crisis (1956)