Cuban Missile Crisis contest

Check out this contest about the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 50th anniversary of which is coming up soon.

Contest Question:

What can statesmen learn from the most dangerous confrontation in human history to better address challenges of war and peace today?

Directions:

• Participants submit an original lesson from the Cuban Missile Crisis that answers contest question.
• The text of the submission must be no more than 300 words.
• When writing lesson, participants should try to distill lesson into one topic sentence; remainder of submission should provide supporting evidence and argument. (See below for an example.)
• Entry must be original, not merely repeating a lesson already noted by analysts, scholars and statesmen in the past.
• When constructing your lesson, please reference the list of lessons catalogued by the Belfer Center to ensure your lesson’s originality.