Michael Dobbs, author of One Minute to Midnight, provides a detailed step by step account of the Crisis on Twitter.  https://twitter.com/missilecrisis62

Everyone interested in the Cuban Missile Crisis should read One Minute to Midnight.

The Foreign Policy article he wrote can be found at: https://cubanmissilecrisis.foreignpolicy.com/blog/630847 and his New York Times article is at: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/opinion/the-eyeball-to-eyeball-myth-and-the-cuban-missile-crisiss-legacy.html?_r=0

This month of October 2012 marks fifty years since the Cuban Missile Crisis.  There are a number of conferences that examine the events of October 1962:

October 15, 2012 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1:00-2:30 pm

Is the World More Dangerous 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis?

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-world-more-dangerous-50-years-after-the-cuban-missile-crisis There will be a live webcast of this event.

October 17, 2012 Woodrow International Center for Scholars 3:30-5:00 pm

The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Missiles of November

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-soviet-cuban-missile-crisis-castro-mikoyan-kennedy-khrushchev-and-the-missiles-november

October 18, 2012 National Archives McGowan Theater Noon

From the Vaults: The Cuban Missile Crisis  Films from the Archives holdings.

https://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/events/

October 23, 2012 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 4:00 pm-5:00 pm

Foreign Relations of the United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/foreign-relations-the-united-states-and-the-cuban-missile-crisis

October 24, 2012 Woodrow Wilson International center for Scholars 3:30 pm-5:00 pm

Cuban Missile Crisis: Nuclear Order of Battle

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/cuban-missile-crisis-nuclear-order-battle

October 25, 2012 Elliott School George Washington University 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

The 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Lessons Learned

https://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2012&mon=10#1883