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ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT by Michael Dobbs
The definitive account of the Cuban missile crisis
"A tour de force, a dramatic, nail-biting page-turner that is also an important work of scholarship".--Martin Sherwin. "First rate great history and a great read."--Ray Garthoff. “Dobbs’s hour-to-hour chronology of those tormenting days when the world stood on the verge of nuclear holocaust is riveting." --Dino Brugioni.
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Nuclear storage vans During the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviets used specially configured storage cans to transport their nuclear warheads. The above photograph, taken by a U.S. Navy plane on October 25, 1962, shows the vans parked outside an underground bunker near the town of Bejucal. Click on Vans overlay to see their precise location on this date.