La Isabela

<!-- 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#5204813445762839762"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/msdobbs/SDs2QKze9NI/AAAAAAAAAVA/E75QYAsOfD8/s400/1e%20alapyevsk.jpg" /></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <dl> <dt><font color="#666666"><strong>Nuclear warheads in La Isabela</strong></font></dt> <dd><font color="#999999">During the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviets were forced to use the La Isabela as a storage place for nuclear warheads. The warheads were on board the freighter Aleksandrovsk, which was heading for Mariel on October 22, 1962, when John F. Kennedy announced a naval blocade. Khrushchev ordered the ship to put into "the nearest port," together with its sister ship, the Almetyevsk. </font></dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>