CHAPTER TWO
1. “Community Remembers Missile Crisis,” GreenvilleOnLine, 2012.
2. Alumni page, Clemson University.
3. Alumni page, Clemson University.
4. The Tiger, Clemson University, March 11, 1948.
5. Col. Charles Maultsby, Toward the Unknown: Memoirs of an American Fighter Pilot (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013), 8.
6. Maultsby, Toward the Unknown, 18.
CHAPTER THREE
1. William Doyle, PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy (New York: William Morrow, 2015).
2. Doyle, PT 109, 93.
3. Doyle, PT 109, 109.
4. Doyle, PT 109, 111; “Patrick H. McMahon Dead at 84; Burned Sailor Saved by Kennedy,” Associated Press, February 22, 1990; Richard Goldstein, “Gerard Zinser, Last Surviving PT 109 Crewman, Dies at 82,” New York Times, August 29, 2001.
5. Doyle, PT 109, 114.
6. Doyle, PT 109, 116.
7. Doyle, PT 109, 140.
8. Doyle, PT 109, 148.
9. Doyle, PT 109, 151.
10. Doyle, PT 109, 189.
CHAPTER FOUR
1. Author interview with Robert Ross, 2016.
2. Author interview with Tripp Anderson, 2016.
3. Author interview with James Anderson, 2017.
4. Author interview with Tripp Anderson, 2016.
CHAPTER FIVE
1. Col. Charles Maultsby, Toward the Unknown: Memoirs of an American Fighter Pilot (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013), 24.
2. Maultsby, Toward the Unknown, 42.
3. C. V. Gliness, “A Speech Worth Dying For,” Air Force Magazine, October 1995.
4. Maultsby, Toward the Unknown, 81.
5. Maultsby, Toward the Unknown, 95.
6. Maultsby, Toward the Unknown, 105.
7. Maultsby, Toward the Unknown, 110.
8. Maultsby, Toward the Unknown, 111.
9. Maultsby, Toward the Unknown, 112.
CHAPTER SIX
1. Annie Jacobsen, Area 51 (Boston: Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2012), 26.
2. Author interview with Richard Leghorn, 2016.
3. Letter from Edwin Land to Allen Dulles, November 5, 1954, National Archives.
4. David Binder, “Richard M. Bissell, 84, Is Dead; Helped Plan Bay of Pigs Invasion,” New York Times, February 8, 1994.
5. Peter Garrison, “Head Skunk,” Air & Space Magazine, March 2010.
CHAPTER SEVEN
1. Michael Beschloss, May-Day (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), 105–107.
2. Organization and Delineation of Responsibilities, Project OILSTONE, United States Air Force and Central Intelligence Agency, August 2, 1955.
3. National Aviation Hall of Fame (http://www.nationalaviation.org).
CHAPTER EIGHT
1. “Is Russia Really Ahead in the Missile Race?,” US News & World Report, May 4, 1956, 34.
2. Andrew Goodpaster’s handwritten notes on July 2, 1956, meeting, WHOSS, Alpha DDEL.
3. Interview with Willy Pell, nephew of Hervey Stockman, Gizmodo.com, 2011.
4. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 15.
5. John F. Kennedy, The Letters of John F. Kennedy (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013).
6. Kenneth Crispell and Carlos Gomez, Hidden Illness in the White House (Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 1988), 186.
7. Robert Dallek, “The Medical Ordeals of JFK,” Atlantic Monthly, December 2002.
CHAPTER NINE
1. Col. Charles Maultsby, Toward the Unknown: Memoirs of an American Fighter Pilot (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013), 121.
2. Maultsby, Toward the Unknown, 148.
3. “Project Mercury Overview—Astronaut Selection,” https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/astronaut.html.
4. Gerald McIlmoyle and Linda Rios Bromley, Remembering the Dragon Lady (West Midlands, UK: Helion & Company, 2011), 131.
CHAPTER TEN
1. Col. Charles Maultsby, Toward the Unknown: Memoirs of an American Fighter Pilot (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013), 148, 176.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
1. Author interview with Tripp Anderson, 2016.
2. Gerald McIlmoyle and Linda Rios Bromley, Remembering the Dragon Lady (Midlands, UK: Helion & Company, 2011), 378.
3. Francis Gary Powers and Curt Gentry, Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2003).
4. Powers and Gentry, Operation Overflight, 69.
CHAPTER TWELVE
1. “143—The President’s News Conference, May 11, 1960,” American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=11778.
2. Sherman Kent, “The Summit Conference of 1960: An Intelligence Officer’s View,” CIA, https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/sherman-kent-and-the-board-of-national-estimates-collected-essays/8summit.html.
3. “The Second Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate,” Commission on Presidential Debates, October 7, 1960, http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=october-7–1960-debate-transcript.
4. Author interview with Richard Leghorn, 2016.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
1. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 187.
2. Robert Dallek, “The Medical Ordeals of JFK,” Atlantic Monthly, December 1, 2002.
3. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days (New York: Crown Publishers, 1983), 19.
4. Sharon Whitley Larsen, “Remembering JFK and PT 109 Heroism,” San Diego Union Tribune, November 21, 2013.
5. John F. Kennedy inaugural speech, 1961, transcript, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
1. Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 120.
2. Edwin O. Guthman and Jerry Shulman, Robert F. Kennedy: In His Own Words (New York: Bantam Publishing Group, 1988), 242.
3. Thomas, Robert Kennedy, 121.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
1. “Memorandum to the President—May 23, 1961,” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
2. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 186.
3. Peter Keating, “The Strange Saga of JFK and the Original Dr. Feelgood,” New York Magazine, November 22, 2013.
4. Memorandum of conversation, Vienna, June 4, 1961, 10:15 a.m., Office of the Historian, United States of America.
5. Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1997), 253.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
1. Author interview with Charles Maultsby, 2015.
2. Author interview with James Anderson, 2017.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
1. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 412.
2. Max Holland, “The Photo Gap That Delayed Discovery of Missiles,” Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA historical document, posted 2007.
3. Holland, “The Photo Gap That Delayed Discovery of Missiles.”
4. Robert F. Kennedy oral history interview, JFK #8, February 27, 1965, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
5. Holland, “The Photo Gap That Delayed Discovery of Missiles.”
6. JFK press conference #43, September 13, 1962, JFKLibrary.org.
7. Holland, “The Photo Gap That Delayed Discovery of Missiles.”
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
1. Michael Dobbs, “Into Thin Air,” Washington Post, October 26, 2003.
2. Dobbs, “Into Thin Air.”
CHAPTER NINETEEN
1. Author interview with Steve Heyser at Maxwell Air Force Base.
2. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 4.
3. Allen Yarnell, Postwar Epoch (New York: Joanna Cotler Books, 1972).
4. Author interview with Heyser at Maxwell Air Force Base.
CHAPTER TWENTY
1. Dino Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball (New York: Random House, 1992).
2. Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball.
3. Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969), 53.
4. Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers (New York: Little, Brown, 1970).
5. Ted Sorensen, Kennedy (New York: Harper & Row, 1965).
6. Kennedy, Thirteen Days.
7. Ernest May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002). All quotes from ExComm meetings are from Kennedy’s tape recordings.
8. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 449.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
1. Buddy Brown speech, fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, George Mason University, Washington, DC, October 27, 2012.
2. Gerald McIlmoyle and Linda Rios Bromley, Remembering the Dragon Lady (West Midlands, UK: Helion & Company, 2011), 269.
3. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 454.
4. Ernest May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), 169.
5. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days (Boston: Crown Publishers, 1995), 806.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
1. Author interview with Jerry McIlmoyle; PBS video documentary, John Murray and Emer Reynolds, dirs., Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War (Crossing the Lines Production, 2012).
2. Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969), 31.
3. William Ecker and Kenneth Jack, Blue Moon over Cuba (Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2012), 75.
4. Kennedy, Thirteen Days, 63.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
1. Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969), 44.
2. Interview with Pierre Salinger in Pat Mitchell and Jeremy Isaacs, producers, “Cuba,” episode 10 of The Cold War (CNN, 1998).
3. Ernest May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), 201 (minutes taken by Bromley Smith of the ExComm meeting).
4. May and Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes, 203 (notes taken from Joint Chiefs meeting).
5. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 469.
6. McCone to File, “Meeting with the Vice President,” 245; May and Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes.
7. Priscilla Roberts, Cuban Missile Crisis: The Essential Reference Guide (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012).
8. May and Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes, 204.
9. Telephone recording between JFK and Dwight Eisenhower, October 22, 1962, John F. Kennedy Library and Presidential Museum.
10. May and Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes.
11. May and Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes, 181.
12. Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 481.
13. Kennedy, Thirteen Days, 55.
14. Beschloss, The Crisis Years, 477, 478.
15. Jeremy Isaacs and Pat Mitchell, The Cold War (Documentary, 1998, funded by the BBC and Turner Broadcasting).
16. Gerald McIlmoyle and Linda Rios Bromley, Remembering the Dragon Lady (West Midlands, UK: Helion & Company, 2011), 272.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
1. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 479.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
1. Ernest May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), 194.
2. “CBS News Special Report, October 24, 1962,” video posted to YouTube by NewsActive3 on September 27, 2015, https://www.youtube.com /results?search_query=CBS+news+special+report+october+24%2C+1962.
3. Author interview with James Anderson, February 9, 2017.
4. Author interview with Chuck Maultsby Jr., September 14, 2015.
5. Clint Hill, Mrs. Kennedy and Me (New York: Gallery Books, 2012), 193.
6. Author interview with Robert F. Kennnedy Jr., September 1, 2017.
7. Author interview with Sergei Khrushchev, February 12, 2017.
8. William Ecker and Kenneth Jack, Blue Moon over Cuba (Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2012), 36.
9. Ecker and Jack, Blue Moon over Cuba, 95.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
1. William Ecker and Kenneth Jack, Blue Moon over Cuba (Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2012), 95.
2. Ecker and Jack, Blue Moon over Cuba, 100.
3. Ian Thompson, “Vet’s Mission Was to Confirm Cuban Missile Sites,” Daily Republic, November 15, 2015.
4. Ecker and Jack, Blue Moon over Cuba, 104.
5. Ernest May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), 321.
6. Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969), 60.
7. Ecker and Jack, Blue Moon over Cuba, 102.
8. Ecker and Jack, Blue Moon over Cuba, 109.
9. “Pilot Dan Schmarr Remembered for Love of Family, Country, God,” Spokesman, January 5, 2006.
10. History of the 4080th Wing, October 10–31, declassified 1979, 9.
11. Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000) 224.
12. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 489.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
1. Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969), 53.
2. Kennedy, Thirteen Days, 52.
3. Ernest May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), 228.
4. Kennedy, Thirteen Days, 54.
5. Kennedy, Thirteen Days, 54.
6. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 498.
7. May and Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes, 236.
8. Charles L. Bartlett oral history #2, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
9. Bartlett oral history #2.
10. May and Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes.
11. Beschloss, The Crisis Years, 502.
12. Bartlett oral history #2.
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
1. Summary record of NSC executive committee meeting no. 6, October 26, 1962, National Security Archive, George Washington University, nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/621026_621115%20Chronology%201.pdf.
2. Ernest May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), 250.
3. “Captain Coffee: Reaffirming the Invincibility of the Human Spirit,” www.captaincoffee.com/about.
4. Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight (New York: Vintage Books, 2008), 119.
5. Gerald McIlmoyle and Linda Rios Bromley, Remembering the Dragon Lady (West Midlands, UK: Helion & Company, 2011), 279.
6. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 48.
7. Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight, 130.
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
1. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 506.
2. Ernest May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), 263.
3. May and Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes, 266.
4. Summary record of NSC ExComm meeting #6, October 26, 1962, 10:00 a.m.
5. Interview with Fidel Castro, in Pat Mitchell and Jeremy Isaacs, producers, “Cuba,” episode 10 of The Cold War (CNN, 1998).
6. Letter from Castro to Khrushchev, October 26, 1962, NSA Archive, George Washington University.
7. Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight (New York: Vintage Books, 2008), 52.
8. Norman Polmar and John Gresham, Defcon-2 (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006), 142.
9. Tad Szulc, Fidel: A Critical Portrait (New York: Harper, 2000), 584.
10. William Ecker and Kenneth Jack, Blue Moon over Cuba (Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2012), 157.
11. Ecker and Jack, Blue Moon over Cuba, 201, 229.
12. Don Koser, Strategic Air Command Casualties, Air Force Global Strike Command, October 19, 2012.
13. Ecker and Jack, Blue Moon over Cuba, 179.
14. May and Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes, 291.
15. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days (Boston: Crown Publishers, 1995), 826.
16. Department of State telegram transmitting letter from Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy, October 26, 1962, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
17. Douglas Brinkley, Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years, 1953–71 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992), 170.
18. Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969), 69.
CHAPTER THIRTY
1. Col. Charles Maultsby, Toward the Unknown: Memoirs of an American Fighter Pilot (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013).
2. Maultsby, Toward the Unknown, 184.
3. Maultsby, Toward the Unknown, 185.
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
1. Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight (New York: Vintage Books, 2008), 218.
2. Author interview with Jerry McIlmoyle, July 2015; Gerald McIlmoyle and Linda Rios Bromley, Remembering the Dragon Lady (West Midlands, UK: Helion & Company, 2011), 272.
3. Charles Kern in McIlmoyle and Bromley, Remembering the Dragon Lady, 279.
4. McIlmoyle and Bromley, Remembering the Dragon Lady, 272.
5. Supplement 8 to Joint Evaluation of Soviet Missile Threat in Cuba, prepared in part by National Photographic Interpretation Center (declassified 1999).
6. Author interview with Jerry McIlmoyle, January 2015.
7. Krzysztof Dabrowski, “The Loss of Major Anderson,” 2012, http: //www.acig.info/CMS.
8. PBS documentary, John Murray, dir., Cuban Missile Crisis (Crossing the Lines Production, 2012).
9. Interview with Grigory Danilevich, 2004, National Security Archive, George Washington University, www.nsarchive.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/dobbs/danilevich_acct.pdf.
10. Dino Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball (New York: Random House, 1992), 476.
11. Leonid Garbuz, deputy commander of Soviet forces on Cuba, October 1962, extracted from A. I. Gribkov et al., U kraya yadernoi bezdni (On the Edge of the Nuclear Madness), 1998, National Security Archive, George Washington University, http://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/dobbs/garbuz_acct.pdf (as told by Garbuz to Gribkov).
12. Dabrowski, “The Loss of Major Anderson.”
13. History of the 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, declassified 1996, Forbes Air Force Base, Kansas.
14. Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight (excerpt in National Security Archive).
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
1. Gerald McIlmoyle and Linda Rios Bromley, Remembering the Dragon Lady (West Midlands, UK: Helion & Company, 2011) (a longer version of Maultsby’s manuscript).
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
1. Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight (New York: Vintage Books, 2008), 268.
2. Sheldon Stern, The Week the World Stood Still (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005), 157.
3. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1966), 173.
4. Edward Kennedy, True Compass (New York: Hachette Book Group, 2009), 189.
5. Col. Charles Maultsby, Toward the Unknown: Memoirs of an American Fighter Pilot (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013).
6. Communication from Khrushchev to Kennedy in Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969).
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
1. Interview with Grigory Danilevich, 2004, National Security Archive, George Washington University, www.nsarchive.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/dobbs/danilevich_acct.pdf.
2. Interview with Danilevich.
3. Leonid Garbuz, deputy commander of Soviet forces on Cuba, October 1962, extracted from A. I. Gribkov et al., U kraya yadernoi bezdni (On the Edge of the Nuclear Madness), 1998, National Security Archive, George Washington University, http://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/dobbs/garbuz_acct.pdf (as told by Garbuz to Gribkov).
4. Gribkov, On the Edge of Nuclear Madness.
5. Krzysztof Dabrowski, “The Loss of Major Anderson,” http://www.acig.info/CMS.
6. PBS video documentary, John Murray and Emer Reynolds, dirs., Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War (Crossing the Lines Production, 2012).
7. Dabrowski, “The Loss of Major Anderson.”
8. Murray and Reynolds, Cuban Missile Crisis.
9. Norman Polmar and John Gresham, Defcon-2 (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006), 150.
10. Dabrowski, “The Loss of Major Anderson.”
11. Dino Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball (New York: Random House, 1992), 463.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
1. Alexander Orlov, “The U-2 Program: A Russian Officer Remembers,” 1998, www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellegence.
2. Author interview with Sergei Khrushchev, December 2016.
3. Sergei Khrushchev, Khrushchev on Khrushchev (New York: Little, Brown, 1990).
4. CIA memorandum, October 27, 1962, declassified 2002.
5. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 523.
6. Beschloss, The Crisis Years, 523.
7. Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969).
8. Patrick Sloyan, The Politics of Deception (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015); Dino Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball (New York: Random House, 1992), 464.
9. Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball, 471.
10. Kennedy, Thirteen Days, 105.
11. Kennedy, Thirteen Days, 105.
12. McGeorge Bundy, Danger and Survival (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 432.
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
1. Col. Charles Maultsby, Toward the Unknown: Memoirs of an American Fighter Pilot (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013), 197.
2. Maultsby, Toward the Unknown, 199.
3. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days (Boston: Crown Publishers, 1965), 818.
4. Schlesinger, A Thousand Days.
5. Alice George, Awaiting Armageddon (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 52.
6. George, Awaiting Armageddon, 53.
7. Dino Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball (New York: Random House, 1992), 482.
8. Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight (New York: Vintage Books, 2008), 308.
9. Maz Frankel, High Noon in the Cold War (New York: Ballantine Books, 2004), 151.
10. Robert Kennedy to Dean Rusk, October 30, 1962, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; Ernest May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), 607.
11. Ernest May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), 609.
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
1. Sheldon Stern, The Week the World Stood Still (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005), 165.
2. “The Submarines of October,” Briefing Book 7, National Security Archive, http://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB75/index2.htm.
3. Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight (New York: Random House, 2008).
4. Dino Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball (New York: Random Housse, 1992), 377.
5. Submariner Viktor Mikhailov as reported in the “The Man Who Saved the World,” Daily Mail, September 25, 2012.
6. Alexander Mozgovoi, “Recollections of Orlov, Vadim, the Cuban Samba,” Military Parade (Moscow), 2002
7. Deck logbook of USS Beale, courtesy of the National Security Archives.
8. Marion Lloyd, “Soviets Close to Using A-Bomb in 1962 Crisis,” Boston Globe, October 13, 2002 (at Havana Conference).
9. Norman Polmar and John Gresham, Defcon-2 (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006), 162; see also Mozgovoi, “Recollections of Orlov, Vadim.”
10. Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight, 302.
11. Mark Leonard and Rob Blackhurst, “I Don’t Think Anybody Thought Much About Whether Agent Orange Was Against the Rules of War,” Guardian, May 18, 2002, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/19 /theobserver.
12. Polmar and Gresham, Defcon-2, 156.
13. “The Submarines of October: US and Soviet Navy Encounters During the Cuban Missile Crisis,” National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book No. 15, William Burr and Thomas S. Blanton, eds., October 31, 2002.
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
1. Dino Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball (New York: Random House, 1992), 276.
2. Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball, 480.
3. Sheldon Stern, The Week the World Stood Still (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005), 186.
4. Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball, 477.
5. PBS video documentary, John Murray and Emer Reynolds, dirs., Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War (Crossing the Lines Production, 2012).
6. Stern, The Week the World Stood Still, 188.
7. Norman Polmar and John Gresham, Defcon-2 (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006), 267.
8. Ernest May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), 400.
9. May and Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes, 400.
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
1. Letter from Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy, October 28, 1962, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
2. Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (New York: Edward Burlingame Books, HarperCollins, 1991), 541.
3. Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 231.
4. Michael Dobbs, One Minute to Midnight (New York: Vintage Books, 2008), 322.
5. Thomas, Robert Kennedy, 231.
6. Ernest May and Philip D. Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), 408, 409.
7. Patrick Sloyan, The Politics of Deception (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015), 33.
8. Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969), 84.
9. Kennedy, Thirteen Days, 84.
10. Dino Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball (New York: Random House, 1992), 477.
11. Interview with James Anderson, February 8, 2017.
12. Rick Hampson, “The Cuban Missile Crisis,” USA Today, October 14, 2012.
13. Naval Message p311535z, National Security Archive, George Washington University, http://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//nsa/cuba_mis_cri/dobbs/anderson _corpse.pdf.
EPILOGUE
1. Interview with Jerry McIlmoyle, January 2016; Dino Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball (New York: Random House, 1992), 526.
2. “General Hails Pilots Who Fly over Cuba at Rites for Maj. Anderson,” Associated Press, November 6, 1962.
3. Interview with Anderson, 2017.
4. Rick Hampson, “The Cuban Missile Crisis,” USA Today, October 14, 2012.
5. Author interview with Steve Heyser’s son, Richard J. Heyser.
6. Author interview with Charles Maultsby II, 2015.
7. Col. Charles Maultsby, Toward the Unknown: Memoirs of an American Fighter Pilot (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013), 251.
8. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days (Boston: Crown Publishers, 1965), 904.
9. Commencement address at American University, June 10, 1963, transcript, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.