The missiles of October : the declassified story of John F. Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis / by Thompson, Robert Smith

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

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

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

Table of 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 -- Conclusion.…”
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The making of a missile crisis, October 1962 / by Dinerstein, Herbert S. 1919-

Chinese nuclear and missile proliferation [October 24, 2023] / by Kerr, Paul K.

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Defense primer : ballistic missile defense [October 9, 2019] / by McCall, Stephen M. (Analyst in military space, missile defense, and defense innovation)

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History as rhetoric : style, narrative, and persuasion / by Carpenter, Ronald H., 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Barbara Tuchman, John Kennedy, and Why "The Missiles of October" Did Not Become The Guns of August: Narrative Fidelity from Archetypal Story Form --…”
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The presidency of John F. Kennedy / by Giglio, James N., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Road to the White House -- Assuming command -- Year of crises and conflict -- More conflict and crises -- Launching the New Frontier -- Old ideas and new approaches -- The travail of civil rights -- The missiles of October -- The third world -- Image and reality -- Aftermath and assessment.…”
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The Cuban missile crisis revisited /

Table of Contents: “…/ Richard Ned Lebow -- Thirteen months : Cuba's perspective on the missile crisis / Philip Brenner -- President Kennedy's decision to impose a blockade in the Cuban missile crisis : building consensus in the ExComm after the decision / Elizabeth Cohn -- Before "the missiles of October" : did Kennedy plan a military strike against Cuba? …”

Robert Kennedy : brother protector / by Hilty, James W.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 14: ""Number One and One-Half""Chapter 15: Missiles of October; Chapter 16: Lest Darkness Come upon You; Epilogue: There Has to Be a Morning After; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Chronology; Photograph Credits; Index…”
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Spies : the epic intelligence war between East and West / by Walton, Calder

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Chapter One: The Hundred-Year Intelligence War -- Part One: The Clash Between Dictators and Democracies -- Chapter Two: Chill in the East -- Chapter Three: Nemesis -- Chapter Four: Stalin's Wartime Assault -- Part Two: The Clash of Civilizations -- Chapter Five: From World War to Cold War -- Chapter Six: Puzzle Palaces -- Chapter Seven: Climate of Treason -- Part Three: The Clash of Arms -- Chapter Eight: Battlegrounds -- Chapter Nine: Rise of the Machines -- Chapter Ten: The Missiles of October -- Part Four: The Clash of Empires…”
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The Cuban Missile Crisis : 50th anniversary update.

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Cold War : the essential reference guide /

Table of Contents: “…Acheson, Dean Gooderham (1893-1971) -- Afghanistan War (1979-1989) -- Africa -- Arab nationalism -- Bay of Pigs (April 17, 1961) -- Berlin blockade and airlift (1948-1949) -- Berlin crises (1958-1961) -- Berlin Wall (August 13, 1961-November 9, 1989) -- Brandt, Willy (1913-1992) -- Breshnev, Leonid (1906-1982) -- Central Intelligence Agency -- Churchill, Winston (1874-1965) -- Civil defense -- Committee on the Present Danger -- Communist revolutionary warfare -- Congo civil war (1960-1965) -- Cuba -- Cuban missile crisis (October 1962) -- Dominican Republic, U.S. interventions in -- Dulles, John Foster (1888-1959) -- Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969) -- Geneva Conference (1954) -- Gorbachev, Mikhail (1931- ) -- Greek civil war (1946-1949) -- Gromyko, Andrey (1909-1989) -- Gulags -- Helsinki Final Act (1975) -- Hiss, Alger (1904-1996) -- Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) -- Hoover, John Edgar (1895-1972) -- Human rights -- Hydrogen bomb -- Indochina War (1946-1954) -- Israel -- Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973) -- Kennan, George Frost (1904-2005) -- Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) -- Khrushchev, Nikita (1894-1971) -- Kissinger, Henry (1923- ) -- Korean War (1950-1953) -- Laos -- Latin America, popular liberation movements in -- Literature -- Malayan emergency (1948-1960) -- Mao Zedong (1893-1976) -- Marshall plan -- McCarthyism -- Missiles, intercontinental ballistic -- Moscow meeting, Brezhnev and Nixon (May 22-30, 1972) -- Mutual assured destruction -- National Security Act (July 26, 1947) -- National Security Agency -- Nixon, Richard Milhous (1913-1994) -- Non-Aligned Movement -- North American Aerospace Defense Command -- North Atlantic Treaty Organization, history of (1948-1990) -- NSC-68, National Security Council Report -- Nuclear arms race -- Nuclear tests -- Ostpolitik -- Partial Test Ban Treaty (August 5, 1963) -- Peace movements -- Perestroika -- Prague Spring (1968) -- Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty -- Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911-2004) -- Sakharov, Andrei Dimitrievich (1921-1989) -- Sino-Soviet split (1956-1966) -- Solidarity movement -- Sputnik (October 4, 1957) -- Stalin, Josef (1879-1953) -- Strategic Air Command -- Strategic Arms Reduction talks and treaties -- Strategic Defense Initiative -- Tiananmen Square (June 4, 1989) -- Tito, Josip Broz (1892-1980) -- Truman Doctrine (March 12, 1947) -- U-2 incident (May 1960) -- United Nations -- Vietnam War (1957-1975) -- Vladivostok meeting (November 22-24, 1974) -- Warsaw Pact -- Washington Summit meeting, Reagan and Gorbachev (December 7-10, 1987) -- Yeltsin, Boris (1931-2007).…”
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