Signature Lecture: "This Close to Nuclear War": Robert McNamara's Cuban Missile Crisis
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Panel Discussion with Fredrik Logevall, James G. Blight, janet M. Lang, and David A Welch
The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the most dangerous crisis of the nuclear age. U.S., Russian and Cuban leaders at the time felt themselves close to the brink of catastrophic nuclear war. Research on the crisis over the past quarter century suggests that the risk of nuclear war in October 1962 was even greater than those leaders--John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro--believed at the time. In the 2004 Academy Award-winning documentary film by Errol Morris, "The Fog of War," former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara held up his thumb and forefinger in front of the camera until they almost touched. "We came this close to nuclear war," he said, "this close to the total destruction" of the U.S., Soviet Union, Cuba and much of the rest of the world as well. The world as we know it could have been destroyed in October 1962 and a primary reason why this did not happen, according to McNamara was luck. "We lucked out," as McNamara says in "The Fog of War." On the 48th anniversary of the crisis, four distinguished scholars will take the stage at CIGI who have vast experience working with and on McNamara. They will address these questions: why did the crisis occur? What caused it to spin out of control? How close did the crisis come to nuclear war? What would likely have happened if nuclear weapons had been used by either side in or around Cuba? And what lessons do Robert McNamara's experience of the crisis-both in October 1962 and in his subsequent historical research-offer to leaders and citizens alike who wish to reduce the risk of nuclear war in the 21st century so that nothing as dangerous as the missile crisis another never happens again? The panel's presentation will begin with a brief dramatic excerpt of McNamara recalling the crisis from "The Fog of War."
Just some time stamps for myself :)
*FIRST SPEAKER* Fredrik Logevall
15:35 Talking about White House tapes
17:00 Two points explained
- 17:30 JFK’s role in the Cuban Missile Crisis
19:42 Explaining Blockade option
23:38 Summary of evidence (Macmillan was not JKF’s primary ally)
24:05 Kennedy stood alone
25:10 A few words about Kennedy (positive)
25:50 Critiques of JFK
26:20 Back to positive review of Kennedy
27:08 “We can all be grateful that Kennedy showed restraint”
28:08 “Human agency was of great great importance”
2ND POINT 28:18
29:00 a lot wasn’t recorded
*SECOND SPEAKER* James Blight
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1:22:15 Reasoning behind putting missiles in Cuba
1:23:15 “it’s a gamble but it’s worth it”
1:25:18 CIA did alert Kennedy!
1:26:50 Soviet intelligence was bad
QUESTIONS
Why did Missiles in Turkey cause a crisis? 1:29:25
What if Nixon was president? 1:32:15
- 1:34:30 Nixon’s critiques of Kennedy
- 1:35:35 talking about Kennedy’s insistence
Behaviours of other leaders 1:38:30
1:40:00 letter about war
1:43:25 why it pays to have emotional people in charge
1:44:37 direct quote
1:51:40 talking about JFK’s skepticism
JFK was calm and responsible during the crisis, but not in the leader up to the crisis, so you agree? 1:52:00
Could US military action have been contained at all? 1:57:30
Yegads...this is an excellent lecture but WHY does she keep calling him "Mackda-mara????"
So I gather the clips from The Fog Of War can't be shown on this video for some reason cause they are blacked out. Just audio.
James Blight made very good points. Human fallabilty and nuclear weapons is unacceptable risk of destroying 1000 years of human effort.
She is saying his name wrong. Unreal.
Love one-sided history that waits until the key players are all dead and can't dispute anything. The ex-Canadian liberal professor was confusing. First he says Kennedy brought on the crisis in the first place trying to remove Castro, then he sings Kennedy's praises as if he was the hero of the crisis. It is so hard to trust modern historians because they are so clearly biased. Macnamara was a republican at that time of the crisis, then turned democrat, so the modern historians have to tiptoe around him.
And you stopped your explanation at the partisan dividing line proving that you are also biased. Another flaw is that the tone of your point is expressed with the notion that the rivalries between the two parties are the same exact ones of today which they are not. Kennedy, who first hired McNamara, represented the last of the conservative democrats, and he certainly was different than the one that came before him whom had forced integration of Little Rock High School, and also taxed the rich a high percentage of their income after a certain amount was earned in the course of a year. Of course, McNamara came to regret his warlike responses when it came to the action in Vietnam, and even went out of his way to study and enact policies that addressed the issues of poverty (Wikipedia) Last but not least, you automatically assume that all of academia are democrats which is an irrelevant mistake--you offer no proof of this. If you do not like to take so and so's word for it why would you expect anyone to take your word for it so to speak? Especially without even one reference to back up your jargon. I can tell you lack an education, and, of course, what would you know about that?
@@calypsomcdonnell1479 The smug judgement of the keyboard warrior who questions opposing viewpoints with the smarmy “you lack education” (successor to the tired old “read a book”) while using the phrase “same exact”. 😂
@@brianstacks1412 You are not a fellow "keyboard warrior" all the same? You are reading like a broken record.
"A certain American president did in a certain country in 2003." At 19:09 minutes. Stopped watching and will never watch channel again. Which country and which president? Ass
10:10 "We LUCKED OUT." of nuclear war. HOLY SHIT. 10/10 aliens disarming them.
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