VIDEO
How did Ukraine contribute to, and participate in, the nuclear arms race of the Cold War era? This lecture will explore Ukraine’s involvement, focusing specifically on the Cuban Missile crisis. All of the ballistic missiles delivered to Cuba were made in Ukraine and most of the missile units dispatched to Cuba were shipped to the island from Ukraine and through Ukrainian ports. The lecture will discuss the KGB reports on the shipment of the missiles and troops, now being held in the SBU archive in Kyiv, and will draw from Plokhii’s latest book, “Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis”.
