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 -- Conclusion
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 th
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index
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