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ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT by Michael Dobbs
The definitive account of the Cuban missile crisis
"A tour de force, a dramatic, nail-biting page-turner that is also an important work of scholarship".--Martin Sherwin. "First rate great history and a great read."--Ray Garthoff. “Dobbs’s hour-to-hour chronology of those tormenting days when the world stood on the verge of nuclear holocaust is riveting." --Dino Brugioni.
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Nuclear warheads in Sagua La Grande On October 27, 1962, the tensest day of the Cuban missile crisis, a convoy of nuclear warheads arrived here from the central Soviet nuclear storage depot at Bejucal. They could have been mounted on R-12 missiles and fired at the United States within 120 minutes. The missiles were targeted on New York and Washington. Soviet commanders ordered the warheads dispersed because they feared that the U.S. was about to attack Cuba.