13 дней до Апокалипсиса. Хроника Карибского кризиса

Karibskii krizis («Kubinskii raketniei krizis») v oktiabre 1962 goda – samiei opasniei moment v otnosheniiah SShA i SSSR, kotoriei mog privesti k globalnoi iadernoi voine. Krizis biel viezvan razmesheniem Sovetskim Souzom ballisticheskih i takticheskih raket (v tom chisle s atomniemi boegolovkami) na Kube, v neposredstvennoi blizosti ot poberejia SShA. Ob etih sobietiiah rasskazievaet Robert Kennedi, Generalniei prokuror SShA s 1961 po 1964 god, mladshii brat prezidenta Djona Kennedi. Rasskaz Roberta Kennedi polon dramaticheskih podrobnostei o tom, kak mir stoial na poroge Apokalipsisa, kogda, po minimalniem ocenkam, v odin den moglo pogibnut do 80 millionov chelovek. Kennedi pishet i ob urokah Karibskogo krizisa, ne poteriavshih znacheniia do nashih dnei.

The Caribbean crisis ("Cuban Missile Crisis") in October 1962 was the most dangerous moment in relations between the United States and the USSR, which could lead to a global nuclear war. The crisis was caused by the Soviet Union's deployment of ballistic and tactical missiles (including those with atomic warheads) in Cuba, in close proximity to the coast of the United States. Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General of the United States from 1961 to 1964, the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy, tells about these events. Robert Kennedy's story is full of dramatic details about how the world was on the verge of an Apocalypse, when, according to minimal estimates, up to 80 million people could die in one day. Kennedy also writes about the lessons of the Caribbean crisis, which have not lost their significance to the present day.