Research Catalog

Title

The other missiles of October : Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1957-1963 / Philip Nash.

Author

Nash, Philip.

Publication

Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

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Details

Description

xvi, 231 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

Shedding important new light on the history of the Cold War, Philip Nash tells the story of what the United States gave up to help end the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. By drawing on documents only recently declassified, he shows that one of President Kennedy's compromises with the Soviets involved the removal of Jupiter missiles from Italy and Turkey, an arrangement concealed from both the American public and the rest of the NATO allies. Nash traces the entire history of the Jupiters and explores why the United States offered these nuclear missiles, which were capable of reaching targets in the Soviet Union, to its European allies after the launch of Sputnik. The Jupiters subsequently played a far more significant role in Khrushchev's 1962 decision to deploy his missiles in Cuba, in U.S. deliberations during the ensuing missile crisis, and in the resolution of events in Cuba than most existing histories have supposed.

Subject

• USA Präsident
• NATO
• Battle Griffin 99
• 1953-1963
• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
• Jupiter missile > Government policy > United States
• Diplomatic relations
• Jupiter missile > Government policy
• Military policy
• Politics and government
• Jupiter Militärische Rakete
• Militärpolitik
• Raketten
• Koude Oorlog
• Cuba-crisis
• États-Unis > Relations extérieures > 1953-1961
• États-Unis > Relations extérieures > 1961-1963
• Crise de Cuba (1962)
• Geschichte 1957-1963
• United States > Foreign relations > 1953-1961
• United States > Foreign relations > 1961-1963
• United States > Military policy
• United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961
• United States > Politics and government > 1961-1963
• United States
• USA
• Etats-Unis > Relations extérieures > 1961-1963
• Etats-Unis > Relations extérieures > 1953-1961
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-223) and index.

Contents

We cannot deny them to our allies: Eisenhower's IRBM offer to NATO, 1957 -- Trying to dump them on our allies: the search for hosts, 1957-1959 -- Farce & statecraft: soldiers, experts, lawmakers, and torch passers, 1959-1961 -- The old frontier: Kennedy and the Jupiters, 1961-1962 -- Goddamn dangerous: the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 -- A very tidy job: taking them out, 1962-1963.

ISBN

• 0807823392
• 9780807823392
• 0807846473
• 9780807846476

LCCN

96043691

OCLC

• ocm35574650
• 35574650
• SCSB-2135274

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library