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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 Severomorsk During the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviets shipped nuclear warheads to Cuba through the port of Severomorsk, in order to avoid the chokepoints of the Bosphorus and the Baltic Sea. The warheads left Severomorsk on October 6 on board the 5400-ton freighter Aleksandrovsk. The Swedish-built ship arrived in Cuban waters on October 22, the day that President Kennedy announced the naval. Khrushchev ordered the ship to put into "the nearest port," La Isabela.