Cuban Missile Crisis Archives | Washington Monthly

The Cuban Missile Crisis, Revisited: CIA reference photograph of a Soviet medium-range ballistic missile (SS-4 in US documents) on Red Square in 1965.

Special Reports

Dateline Moscow: The Cuban Missile Crisis

by Marvin Kalb February 9, 2026February 9, 2026

Reporting from the Soviet capital about seven days that changed the world.

Books

How Khrushchev Underestimated Kennedy

by Jonathan Alter March 23, 2025March 23, 2025

Political Animal

The Great American Mistake

by D.R. Tucker July 28, 2018January 9, 2022

The New Patriotism

by Nicholas Lemann January 1, 1982February 8, 2023