Sagua La Grande

<!-- BalloonStyle background color: ffffffff --> <!-- Icon URL: http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/paddle/red-blank.png --> <!-- INSTRUCTIONS: Replace these placeholders to customize your balloon. {LOGO_URL} - URL for your org's logo. Preferably under 100x100 pixels. {ORGANIZATION} - the name of your organization. {ABOUT_US_TEXT} - Information about your organization. {LINK_1_NAME} - Name of first link {LINK_1_URL} - URL for the first link {LINK_2_NAME} - Name of second link {LINK_2_URL} - URL of second link {PHOTO_URL} - URL of the picture. Ideally less than 400 pixels wide. {PHOTO_TITLE} - Title of the picture, or other text. {PHOTO_CAPTION} - Caption for this image. Break up paragraphs using <p></p> tags, or line breaks: <br /> {FOOTER} - copyright or footer --> <table width="580" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="middle"> <font color="#CC3333" size="+2"><strong>ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT by Michael Dobbs</strong></font> <hr /> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p> <font color="#666666"><strong>The definitive account of the Cuban missile crisis<br></strong></font> <br /> <font color="#999999">"A tour de force, a dramatic, nail-biting page-turner that is also an important work of scholarship".<br>--Martin Sherwin.<br><br> "First rate great history and a great read."<br>--Ray Garthoff. <br><br> “Dobbs’s hour-to-hour chronology of those tormenting days when the world stood on the verge of nuclear holocaust is riveting."<br> --Dino Brugioni.</font> </p> <p> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/One-Minute-Midnight-Kennedy-Khrushchev/dp/1400043581/ref=pd_ts_b_3?ie=UTF8&s=books" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#CC3333">Buy on Amazon</font></strong></a> </p> </td> <td width="10" align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td align="right" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="white"> <tr> <td align="center"> <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/msdobbs/Cuba/photo?authkey=zp2ZDyQ8j00#5204825033584604402"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/msdobbs/SDtAyqze9PI/AAAAAAAAAWM/jFa3AleA7Pg/s400/3b%20SLG2%20Oct23.jpg" /></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <dl> <dt><font color="#666666"><strong>Nuclear warheads in Sagua La Grande</strong></font></dt> <dd><font color="#999999">On October 27, 1962, the tensest day of the Cuban missile crisis, a convoy of nuclear warheads arrived here from the central Soviet nuclear storage depot at Bejucal. They could have been mounted on R-12 missiles and fired at the United States within 120 minutes. The missiles were targeted on New York and Washington. Soviet commanders ordered the warheads dispersed because they feared that the U.S. was about to attack Cuba. </font></dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>