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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: Bill of Right Institute - Cuban Missile Crisis. | Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Bill of Right Institute - Cuban Missile Crisis. | Sep 21, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Council on Foreign Relations - Handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis. | Jul 27, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown. | Jan 17, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Oct 15, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital Commons at Illinois Wesleyan University - Nikita Khrushchev, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Aftermath (PDF). | Sep 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Cuban Missile Crisis (PDF). | Jun 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Arms Control Association - The Cuban Missile Crisis. | Apr 25, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons - The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Joint Chiefs: Military Operations to Meet Political Ends (PDF). | Feb 15, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: U.S. Naval War College Digital Commons - The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Joint Chiefs: Military Operations to Meet Political Ends (PDF). | Feb 15, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Atomic Heritage Foundation - Nuclear Close Calls: The Cuban Missile Crisis. | Nov 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Air and Space Museum - The Cuban Missile Crisis. | Jul 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Warfare History Network - The Cuban Missile Crisis: On the Brink of Nuclear War. | Jun 17, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs - Cuban Missile Crisis at 60: Lessons of the Past and Relevance for the Present. | May 06, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Hoover Institution - The 1962 Sino-Indian War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. | Mar 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS LearningMedia - Cuban Missile Crisis | Retro Report. | Dec 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Cuban Missile Crisis. | Oct 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Cuban Missile Crisis. | Aug 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Inside the Cuban Missile Crisis. | Jan 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - The Cuban Missile Crisis. | Aug 22, 2022 | ||
| Removed media. | Dec 20, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 04, 2020 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Oct 09, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum - Cuban Missile Crisis. | Dec 04, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: U.S. Department of State - Office of the Historian - The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962. | Dec 04, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Alpha History - The Cuban Missile Crisis. | Dec 04, 2016 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 29, 2016 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 31, 2016 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 11, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Harvard Kennedy School - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs - Cuban Missile Crisis. | Jun 10, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Harvard Kennedy School - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs - Cuban Missile Crisis. | Jun 10, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: The National Security Archive - The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The 40th Anniversary. | Jun 10, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: The National Security Archive - The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The 40th Anniversary. | Jun 10, 2015 | ||
| Added video of John F. Kennedy ordering a naval blockade of Cuba in 1962. | Aug 27, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Cuban Missile Crisis. | Nov 10, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Marxists Internet Archive - Cuban Missile Crisis. | Oct 10, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Library of Congress - Cuban Missile Crisis. | Oct 10, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: h2g2 - The Cuban Missile Crisis. | Oct 10, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Cuban Missile Crisis. | Oct 10, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: The History Learning Site - Cuban Missile Crisis. | Oct 10, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated and media added. | Jul 17, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 23, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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