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The Missile Crisis 60 Years On
Online expert panel
22 October, 3pm BST
On 16 October, 1962, the CIA placed before US President Kennedy the first confirmed pictures of Soviet nuclear missile emplacements in Cuba and what became known as the Missile Crisis or October Crisis began.
Now, as conflict between the ‘West’ and Moscow has reignited on the continent of Europe, what lessons can we learn from the events in the Caribbean sixty years ago? What is its legacy and how should it be remembered? This online panel, brings together a group of distinguished scholars to discuss the events of 1962, how it appears to us today and the relevance it may have to matters still facing the world.
The speakers are Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former Ambassador of the UK to Moscow, Professor Philip Brenner, of the American University in Washington DC, Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archive in Washington DC and Rafael Hernández, editor of Temas magazine in Havana.
The panel will be streamed live on Microsoft Teams at 3pm BST on the 22 October, the 60th anniversary of the day President Kennedy announced the naval blockade of Cuba to the world.
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Picture is of Soviet missile on display in Moscow 1962.
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