August Heats Up

Follow the events of August 1962, as Cold War tensions continue to unfold in the run-up to the Cuban missile crisis.

BY RACHEL DOBBS | AUGUST 2, 2012

Aug. 13, 1962 

Alekandr Alekseyev, shown above with Che Guevara, is instated as the Soviet ambassador to Cuba in Havana. He delivers to Fidel Castro the text of the agreement on the deployment of Soviet missiles to Cuba.

Aug. 14, 1962

The Soviet ship Nakhimov arrives in the port of Mariel, with more Soviet military headquarters staff, after a two-week trip from the Black Sea.

In the United States, meanwhile, the Kennedy administration instructs the CIA not to publish information about suspected missile sites in Cuba.

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