Events
Is the World More Dangerous 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis?
October 15, 2012 // 1:00pm — 2:30pm
Event Co-sponsors:
Kennan Institute
Cold War International History Project
Latin American Program
Webcast
Available
Watch
In October the world will observe the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world came closest to nuclear war. In this Wilson Center National Conversation, panelists will discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis and the lessons that it holds in the context of the upcoming US presidential election.
Location:
6th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
Event Speakers List:
-
Jane Harman // Director, President and CEO
-
Michael Dobbs // Former Short-Term ScholarFormer Washington Post reporter and author of One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
-
Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government
-
Timothy J Naftali // Research GrantSenior Research Fellow, New America Foundation and former Director, Richard Nixon Library
-
Tom Gjelten // ModeratorCorrespondent, National Public Radio
