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Discussion reading for the week

• George, Alice L. Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. pp. xiii-xxiii, 1-41, & 115-170. eBrary.

Supplementary reading

• Seidel, Robert. "Books on the Bomb." Isis. 81.3 (1990): 519-537. Online.

• Lebow, Richard Ned. “The Cuban Missile Crisis: Reading the Lessons Correctly.” Political Science Quarterly. 98.3 (1983): 431-458. Online.
• "Documentation: White House Tapes and Minutes of the Cuban Missile Crisis". International Security. 10.1 (1985): 164-203. Online.
• Scott, Len, and Steve Smith. "Lessons of October: Historians, Political Scientists, Policy-Makers and the Cuban Missile Crisis." International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-). 70.4 (1994): 659-684. Online.

In a lighter mood. . . .

• Screen Blast from the Past (1999).

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It strikes me as the height of folley that those involved in this event were sparing any time for partisan politics while a Sword of Damocles in the form of voluntary xenoside hung over thier heads. That is by far the most shocking realization that one gains from this book, and it illustrates that their are additional threats in a democratic society, especially in these types of situations, that must be considered when drafting policy.

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