Cuban missile crisis

Kennedy and the Anglophile National Security advisor McGeorge Bundy (also a Harvard protege of the Round Table s William Yandell Elliott). During the Cuban Missile Crisis, documents show that Ormsby-Gore and Macmillan made most of the... 

Tens of thousands of atomic and hydrogen bombs were built during and immediately after World War II, and 6,000 are now in existence, each having 20 times the destructive force of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. South Africa removed its nuclear weapons as part of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Pact (NPT). Today, forty nations throughout the world have the ability to produce nuclear weapons. The world barely escaped catastrophe in October 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis. There were 1,700 nuclear weapons in Cuba at that time. If the US. had invaded Cuba, it is too horrible to contemplate what might have been the consequences. 

The influencers of decision and decision process quality are particularly importemt in this. We should sound a note of caution regarding some possibly overly simplistic notions relative to this. Welch (1989) identifies a number of potential imperfections in organizational decision making and discusses their relationship to decision process quality. In part, these are based on an application of seven symptoms identified in Herek et al. (1987) to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. These potentied imperfections include ... 

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This book is very unusual in the field of organization studies because it is a collaborative effort to dissect a decision-making situation from many perspectives. The nearest forerunners are probably Allison and Zelikow s (1999) book on the Cuban missile crisis and Moss and Sills et al. s (1981) book about the accident at Three Mile Island, which also used multiple lenses to interpret single chronologies of events. Overall, there are almost no examples of organizational research that bring... 

Allison, G.T., and Zelikow, P. 1999. Essence of Decision Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 2nd edn. Longman, New York. 

Cuban Missile Crisis (vvww.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-Histoty/Cuban -Missile-Crisis.aspx). This webpage, maintained by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, provides an overview of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the event in which the United States and the Soviet Union came dangerously close to nuclear war. Visitors vdll find links for radio and television coverage of the crisis as vv ll as an interactive timeline that provides an overview of the thirteen key days during the crisis. 

CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS. The 1962 confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over the Soviet deployment of nuclear-tipped missiles in Cuba. On 16 October 1962, U.S. president John F. Kennedy convened a meeting at the White House to review photographic intelligence of the missile sites under construction. Keimedy... 

Subsequent information from the Soviet side revealed a strong desire among some in the Soviet military to run the blockade and fire on U.S. warships. The Cuban Missile Crisis strengthened the Soviet leadership s view that it must achieve nuclear weapon parity with the United States in terms of number of weapons and the ability to deliver them against targets in the United States. It is also led to a conviction that the USSR must never again back down in such a situation. The crisis also contributed to Khrushchev s retirement and contributed momentum for concluding the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT). See also ABLE ARCHER 83. 

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