TY - BOOK AU - WHITE Mark J TI - The Cuban missile crisis SN - 0333630521 (hbk.) PY - 1996/// CY - Basingstoke, UK PB - Macmillan KW - CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS N2 - The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous episode of the Cold War. This book asks why it happened, how it was defused, and reassesses the roles played by leading figures such as John Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, Nikita Khruschev, Adlai Stevenson, Dean Acheson, and Kenneth Keating ER -