1962 15th October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bundy learned that photographic evidence confirmed Soviet offensive missile installations in Cuba.
Cold War · October 1962 · permanent subject timeline
McGeorge Bundy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
The National Security Advisor who briefed Kennedy and participated in ExComm. This page combines historical context with 7 matching records drawn directly from the World History Database Cuban Missile Crisis archive.
Historical context
McGeorge Bundy and the Cuban Missile Crisis: overview and significance
What happened?
McGeorge Bundy helped organise the flow of intelligence and advice to President Kennedy and was among the central White House participants from the first briefing onward.
Why was it important?
Bundy's records provide a view of how intelligence and policy options moved through the White House during the secret and public phases of the crisis.
World History Database records
McGeorge Bundy and the Cuban Missile Crisis timeline
The records below are selected from the 195-record Cuban Missile Crisis archive and rendered as static HTML in chronological order.
1962
1962 16th October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bundy informed Kennedy at 8:45 a.m. that a major international crisis had developed.
1962 17th October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bundy coordinated meetings and intelligence distribution as advisers compared military and political responses to the missile deployment.
1962 20th October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bundy helped organize the decision process that produced Kennedy's choice of a naval quarantine.
1962 22nd October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bundy coordinated White House preparations for the President's address and the formal establishment of ExComm.
1962 27th October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bundy participated in the intense ExComm deliberations over the U-2 loss and Khrushchev's changing settlement terms.
1962 28th October
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bundy helped coordinate immediate follow-up after the Soviet decision to dismantle and remove the offensive missiles.
Editorial provenance
Sources and editorial review
Compiled and edited by World History Database.
Historical context is editorial material; the chronology is generated from World History Database Cuban Missile Crisis records.
Last reviewed: September 2026.
FRUS: Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath · JFK Library · U.S. National Archives
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