Cuban Missile Crisis

Mason commemorates 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 11:59pm | C2M General Reporter Vernon Miles

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, George Mason University in conjunction with the Cold War Museum, held a series of panels on Oct. 27.

“There are many explanations for why the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred,” explained Dr. Sergei Khrushchev, son of the late Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. “All of them wrong.”