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National Archives Lecture: The Armageddon Letters – Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis

National Archives, William G. McGowan 700 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington

James Blight and Janet Lang discuss their new book, The Armageddon Letters, which takes readers behind the scenes during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, arguably one of the most dangerous confrontations of the nuclear age. Researched over 25 years, and augmented with an interactive trans media program, Blight's and Lang's account has been described