Issue Contents:

Introductions

• "The Global Cuban Missile Crisis" - James G. Hershberg
• "The Cuban Missile Crisis Just Isn’t What It Used to Be" - Thomas S. Blanton
• "Back to the Archives: The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50" - Martin J. Sherwin

Asia

• "Sino-Cuban Relations and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1960-62: New Chinese Evidence" - Documents provided by Shen Zhihua and Sergey Radchenko; translated by Zhang Qian; introduced by James G. Hershberg and Sergey Radchenko
• "Japan and the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Documents obtained, translated, and introduced by Masaki Hirata
• "The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Origins of North Korea’s Policy of Self-Reliance in National Defense" - Documents introduced by James F. Person
• "North Vietnam and the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Pierre Asselin
• "Mongolia and the Cuban Missile Crisis—A Glimpse Inside the Ulaanbaatar Archives" - Document introduced and translated by Sergey Radchenko

Latin America

• "The Final Frontier: Cuban Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Introduced by James G. Hershberg
• "Chatting with Che: Conversations in 1961 between Cuban Revolutionary Ernesto Guevara and the Soviet Ambassador in Havana" - Brazilian Record of his Meeting in Punta del Este with JFK Aide Richard Goodwin; introduced by James G. Hershberg
• "Before the Bay of Pigs—What Did the Cubans Know? Cuban Intelligence Reports, January-May 1961" - Introduced by James G. Hershberg
• "Mexican Diplomacy and the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Documents from the Foreign Ministry Archives in Mexico City, introduced by Tanya Harmer
• "The Anti-Castro Cuban Émigré Forces: Mexican Documents, 1961-1963" - Obtained by Jorge Mendoza Castro; translated by Tanya Harmer
• "Brazil and the Cuban Missile Crisis: Documents from the Foreign Ministry Archives in Brasília" - Obtained, translated, and introduced by James G. Hershberg
• "Chile and Brazilian Mediation during the Cuban Missile Crisis: Documents from the Foreign Ministry Archives in Santiago" - Obtained and translated by Eduardo Baudet and Tanya Harmer

Soviet Union

• "The Malin Notes: Glimpses Inside the Kremlin during the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Introduced by Timothy Naftali; translated and annotated by Mark Kramer with assistance from Timothy Naftali
• "A Trigger for Khrushchev’s Deployment? Alexei Adzhubei’s Report on His Conversation with John F. Kennedy, 30 January 1962" - Introduced by James G. Hershberg
• "The Polyansky Report on Khrushchev’s Mistakes in Foreign Policy, October 1964—Excerpt on The Cuban Missile Crisis" - Translated by Svetlana Savranskaya
• "The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Documents on Anastas Mikoyan’s November 1962 Trip to Cuba" - Introduced by Svetlana Savranskaya

Communist Europe

• "Czechoslovakia-Cuba Relations and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1959-1962: Evidence from the Prague Archives" - Introduced by James G. Hershberg
• "Hungary and the Cuban Missile Crisis: Selected Documents, 1961-63" - Introduced by Csaba Békés and Melinda Kalmár
• "Poland, Cuba, and the Missile Crisis, 1962: Ciphered Telegrams from the Foreign Ministry Archives in Warsaw" - Obtained and introduced by James G. Hershberg; translated by Margaret K. Gnoinska

Non-Communist Europe and Israel

• "Konrad Adenauer and the Cuban Missile Crisis: West German Documents" - Introduced by Christian F. Ostermann
• "Italy and the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Sources introduced and translated by Leopoldo Nuti
• "Switzerland and the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Documents obtained, translated, and introduced by Stephanie Popp
• "Israeli Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Obtained, translated, and introduced by Guy Laron

Aftermaths, 1965-1968

• "A Mystery Wrapped in a Riddle and Kept in a Sphinx: New Evidence on Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin’s Trip to Cuba, June 1967" - Introduced by Philip Brenner