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“Seconds Away From Midnight”: U.S. Nuclear Missile Pioneers on Okinawa Break Fifty Year Silence on a Hidden Nuclear Crisis of 1962

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Jon Mitchell
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In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear war after American spy planes discovered that the Kremlin had stationed medium-range atomic missiles on the communist island of Cuba in the Caribbean, barely over the horizon from Florida.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 30 , July 2012 , e1
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References

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1 Bush's Thousand Days, The Washington Post, April 24, 2006.

2 Interviews with Horn, Bordne and Havemann conducted by telephone and email between April 2011 and June 2012.

3 See for example, Daniel Ellsbergs “The American Doomsday Machine” excerpt available here: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090910_a_hundred_holocausts_an_insiders_window_into_us_nuclear_policy/

4 Quote from Michael Dobbs, “One Minute To Midnight”, Knopf, New York, 2008, 14.

5 Quote from Ibid., 224.

6 Quote from Ibid., 50.

7 Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, Hakone, Japan, November 4 1961, 9:30AM.

8 See for example, Matashichi Oishi, The Day The Sun Rose In The West, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2011.

9 Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, Hakone, Japan, November 3 1961, 1PM.

10 Interviews with Niihara conducted between May and June 2012.