July in Focus

The events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis as the Soviet military buildup in Cuba gathered momentum exactly half a century ago.

BY RACHEL DOBBS | JULY 17, 2012

July 14, 1962

The Soviet reconnaissance party in Cuba decides to establish additional reserve positions for each missile site so that, in the event of an American airstrike, not all the missiles at any site could be destroyed at once.  In the photograph, Gen. Pliyev is talking with missile experts.

The Inter-regional Association of Internationalist Fighters (MAVI) 

 

Rachel Dobbs is a research assistant with the Cuban Missile Crisis +50 project. You can follow the project on Twitter at @missilecrisis62.