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The author, who was chief legal advisor to the U.S. Department of State at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, focuses on how law was brought to three interrelated decisions: (1) the choice of the blockage, or "guarantine;" (2) the decision to seek an OAS authorizing resolution; (3) the manner and method of the approach to the U.N.

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Gr 8-12-This documentary reports how the United States and the Soviet Union came perilously close to nuclear war in the 1962 standoff known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. There are fascinating interviews with the Soviet naval captains who had independent authority to fire the nuclear missiles contained aboard their "foxtrot" submarines en route to Cuba. Part 1 begins with background information using archival black-and-white film footage that artistically morphs into colored dramatizations with actors who bear a strong resemblance to their historical counterparts. President Kennedy is shown sending the U.S. Navy to the Bay of Pigs area to prevent arms shipments, unaware of the armed submarines. Suspense builds in Part 2 as the days and hours pass, shown in graphics at the bottom of the screen. Soviet Captains Dubivko, Shumkov, and Ketov describe how they evaded our ships and how warm waters caused temperatures inside the submarines to reach 150 degrees, crippling the engines. In his interview, Dubivko displays indignation at being asked, "Do you need assistance?" when the U.S. Navy surrounded him. He waited for orders to deploy his missiles but they never came. Part 2 ends with the establishment a hotline between President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev to help diffuse future problems. The division of the video into two parts, with questions to consider before and after viewing, will be helpful for classroom discussion.-Vicki Reutter, Cazenovia High School, NY(c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.