Severomorsk

<!-- 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 Severomorsk</strong></font></dt> <dd><font color="#999999">During the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviets shipped nuclear warheads to Cuba through the port of Severomorsk, in order to avoid the chokepoints of the Bosphorus and the Baltic Sea. The warheads left Severomorsk on October 6 on board the 5400-ton freighter Aleksandrovsk. The Swedish-built ship arrived in Cuban waters on October 22, the day that President Kennedy announced the naval. Khrushchev ordered the ship to put into "the nearest port," La Isabela. </font></dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>