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001355108 035__ $$a(OCoLC)881523422
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001355108 24500 $$aVoices from the brink$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe Cuban missile crisis /$$cproduced by Stephen Phizicky, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
001355108 260__ $$aNew York, NY :$$bFilmakers Library,$$c2003.
001355108 300__ $$a1 online resource (24 min.).
001355108 306__ $$a002336
001355108 500__ $$aTitle from resource description page (viewed Apr. 14, 2014).
001355108 520__ $$aAs the threat of weapons of mass destruction looms, this video, made in the late '90s, becomes disturbingly relevant.  The closest the world came to a nuclear war in the twentieth century was the Cuban Missile Crisis which played itself out over 13 days in October, 1962. Remarkably, the behind-the-scenes debates were unobtrusively recorded on tape; these were not de-classified until the late 90s. In this film, we hear on tape President John F. Kennedy and the people around him preparing to confront the Soviet Union in Cuba, in the episode considered the climax of the Cold War.  The tapes demonstrate how Kennedy stood up to relentless pressure to go to war. His own generals, congressmen and friends warned him that appeasement could lead to disaster; he must not appear cowardly. The issue of pre-emptive strike was considered. In the film, Robert McNamara, the former U.S. Defense Secretary and Gen. Maxwell Taylor, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, urge an attack on Cuba with the goal of destroying the Russian missiles. Opposing them are Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Assistant Secretary of State George Ball, who felt that a surprise air strike would be a terrible political error. Sergei Khrushchev, the son of the Soviet premier, recalls his father's shock at learning his military had, without authorization, shot down an American U-2.  For all the calmness displayed on these tapes by the President and his key advisors, we now know that some of their calculations were shockingly mistaken. They had no idea of the dangers the country was really facing. The world was much closer to nuclear war than anyone knew.
001355108 530__ $$aPreviously released as DVD.
001355108 546__ $$aThis edition in English.
001355108 60010 $$aCastro, Fidel,$$d1926-
001355108 60010 $$aKhrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich.
001355108 60010 $$aBall, George W.
001355108 60010 $$aTaylor, Maxwell D.$$q(Maxwell Davenport),$$d1901-1987.
001355108 60010 $$aKennedy, Robert F.,$$d1925-1968.
001355108 60010 $$aMcNamara, Robert Strange.
001355108 60010 $$aKennedy, John F.$$q(John Fitzgerald),$$d1917-1963.
001355108 61020 $$aCentral Intelligence Agency (U.S.)$$zLangley (Va.)
001355108 650_0 $$aCuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
001355108 651_0 $$aUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics.
001355108 651_0 $$aCuba.
001355108 655_7 $$aDocumentary films.$$2lcgft
001355108 7001_ $$aPhizicky, Stephen.$$4pro
001355108 7001_ $$aMcKenna, Terence.$$4nrt
001355108 7102_ $$aCanadian Broadcasting Corporation.$$4pro
001355108 7102_ $$aFilmakers Library online.$$4pbl
001355108 7761_ $$cOriginal$$w(OCoLC)53388281
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001355108 910__ $$aKF 2014-06-19
001355108 944__ $$a2315602
001355108 945__ $$aThe Whole World
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001355108 983__ $$aOnline