The Price of a 50-Year Myth: The Consequences of the Memory of the Cuban Missile Crisis

“The ‘eyeball to eyeball’ imagery made for great drama (it features in the 2000 movie “13 Days”), but it has contributed to some of our most disastrous foreign policy decisions, from the escalation of the Vietnam War under Johnson to the invasion of Iraq under George W. Bush.”


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