Watson Institute for International Studies

Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba’s Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis
by James G. Blight, Philip Brenner.
Read the Prologue from Sad and Luminous Days in PDF (requires Adobe Acrobat).

Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse; Revised for the Fortieth Anniversary
by Bruce J. Allyn, James G. Blight, David A. Welch.
Read the “Afterword: The Cuban Missile Crisis in Post-Cold War Consciousness” from Cuba on the Brink in PDF (requires Adobe Acrobat).

Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis
by James G. Blight, David A. Welch

On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis
by James G. Blight, David A. Welch

Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined
by James G. Blight, Peter Kornbluh

Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse
by Bruce J. Allyn, James G. Blight, David A. Welch

The Shattered Crystal Ball: Fear and Learning in the Cuban Missile Crisis
by James G. Blight