October 2012 is the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I recently did “A minute with . . .” interview with Illinois media regarding the anniversary  It was a good opportunity to condense some thoughts I’ve had about nuclear deterrence (kudos here to Ledbow and Stein’s We All Lost the Cold War). Here’s the interview. It’s short: http://illinois.edu/lb/article/72/67657/page=1/list=list?skinId=1643