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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 La Isabela During the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviets were forced to use the La Isabela as a storage place for nuclear warheads. The warheads were on board the freighter Aleksandrovsk, which was heading for Mariel on October 22, 1962, when John F. Kennedy announced a naval blocade. Khrushchev ordered the ship to put into "the nearest port," together with its sister ship, the Almetyevsk.