What career path did you choose? How did you choose such a path? Presented in partnership with OWU's Lifelong Learning Institute and the Alumni & Friends Ask A Bishop Series, you're invited to join a special class featuring OWU Alumni.
April 8, 10 a.m.
The Cuban Missile Crisis: What We Know Now and Why It Matters
Dr. Pete Kakel OWU '69, research historian and lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a six-day public confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over the presence of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, some 90 miles from the southernmost tip of the United States. It is one of the most studied and most thoroughly documented events of all time. Historians and chroniclers have described it variously as the 'most dangerous moment in human history', the 'high noon of the Cold War', the 'week the world stood still', and, as 'thirteen days' which constituted the 'two most important weeks in human history'. For those who lived through it as young people, it is remembered as the most terrifying moment in our lives, a moment when the world stood on the brink of a nuclear Armageddon. In my talk, I will focus on what we know now after decades of scholarship, on how the story of the crisis has changed over the years, and on the significance of the crisis more than sixty years later.
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