Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis
Three key questions to frame any discussion of one of history's most frightening military confrontations.
Perhaps on a similar anniversary fifty years from now, a student, not yet born, will wrestle with the same dilemma about our current standoff with Iran.
Francis J. Gavin is the Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs and the director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas.