| Prologue |
| A Reflection on Luck in History / 1： |
| World War III Was About to Begin / 2： |
| "We Will Die, but We Will Sink Them All" / 3： |
| Capt. Vasily Alexandrovich Arkhipov / 4： |
| The Long Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962 / 5： |
| The Making of the Nuclear Age, 1945-1962 / Book I： |
| Truman and Stalin / Part 1： |
| "This Is the Greatest Thing in History" / 6： |
| "The Secret of the Atomic Bomb Might Be Hard to Keep" / 7： |
| "Our Momentary Superiority" / 8： |
| Eisenhower, Khrushchev, Castro, and the "Weapon of Mass Destruction" / Part 2： |
| "We Face a Battle to Extinction" / 9： |
| "An Extraordinary Departure" / 10： |
| "There Is Not Communists … but Cubanists" / 11： |
| "General Disarmament Is the Most Important" / 12： |
| "We Cannot Let the Present Government There Go On" / 13： |
| Kennedy Khrushchev, Castro, and the Bay of Pigs / Part 3： |
| "Eisenhower Is Going to Escape" / 14： |
| "AES Wholly Disapproves of the Project" / 15： |
| "Cuba Might Become a Sino-Soviet Bloc Missile Base" / 16： |
| "It Will Be a Cold Winter" / 17： |
| The Thirteen Days, October 16-28, 1962 / Book II： |
| Khrushchev's Missiles / Part 4： |
| "What If We Put Our Nuclear Missiles in Cuba?" / 18： |
| "Without Our Help Cuba Will Be Destroyed" / 19： |
| October 16 (Tuesday), Day One / Part 5： |
| "They're There" / 20： |
| "Actions Were Begun on October 3 to Prepare for Military Action Against Cuba" / 21： |
| "Bomb the Missiles; Invade Cuba" / 22： |
| "I'll Tell My Big Brother on You" / 23： |
| "Negotiation and Sanity, Always" / 24： |
| "Last Month I Should Have Said That We Don't Care" / 25： |
| October 17 (Wednesday)-October 12 (Monday) / Part 6： |
| "Possible Courses of Action and Unanswered Questions" / 26： |
| "What Action Lessens the Chance of a Nuclear Exchange?" / 27： |
| "Flipping a Coin as to Whether You End Up with World War or Not" / 28： |
| The Chief Confronts the Chiefs / 29： |
| "Pull the Group Together!" / 30： |
| "I Trust that You Will Support Me" / 31： |
| "Nuclear War That Week Certainly Was Not Excluded from His Mind" / 32： |
| "What's EDP?" / 33： |
| October 22 (Monday)-October 26 (Friday) / Part 7： |
| "We May Have the War in the Next Twenty-Four Hours" / 34： |
| "Kennedy Sleeps with a Wooden Knife" / 35： |
| "A Game Which We Don't Know the Ending Of" / 36： |
| "The Mobs Turned Up in London Instead of Havana" / 37： |
| "You Would Have Been Impeached" / 38： |
| "We Are Trying to Convey a Political Message … Not Start a War" / 39： |
| "A Russian Submarine-Almost Anything but That" / 40： |
| "Events Have Gone Too Far" / 41： |
| "Trade Them Out or Take Them Out" / 42： |
| "Time Is Very Urgent" / 43： |
| October 27 (Saturday)-October 28 (Sunday) / Part 8： |
| "Let Us Take Measures to Untie That Knot" / 44： |
| "Liquidate the Bases in Turkey and We Win" / 45： |
| "To Any Rational Man It Will Look Like a Very Fair Trade" / 46： |
| "Attacking Sunday or Monday" / 47： |
| "We're Going to Have to Take Our Weapons Out of Turkey" / 48： |
| "An Act of Legitimate Defense" / 49： |
| "There Is Very Little Time to Resolve This Issue" / 50： |
| "You Got Us into This, Now You Get Us Out" / 51： |
| "I Thought It Was My Last Meal" / 52： |
| "We Have Ordered Our Officers to Stop Building Bases" / 53： |
| Lies and Legacies / Part 9： |
| "Most of Them Did Not Like Adlai" / 54： |
| "It Ain't Necessarily So…" / 55： |
| Notes |
| Bibliography |
| Acknowledgments |
| Index |
| Prologue |
| A Reflection on Luck in History / 1： |
| World War III Was About to Begin / 2： |
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