ALASKA’S CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
Name:
ALASKA’S CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
Date:
October 16, 2025
Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM AKDT
Event Description:
In-Person at the Anchorage Museum Auditorium and Online via Crowdcast. Free and open to the public. Please use the Museum’s 7th Avenue entrance.
At the time of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Alaska was an armed camp, the front line of Cold War homeland defense. Recent research has underscored the critical role that events in Alaska played in nearly bringing about—and then helping to avert—nuclear catastrophe. Explore the dramatic story of Alaska’s Cuban Missile Crisis with Friends of Nike Site Summit, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and interpreting Alaska’s Cold War heritage. This is the second talk in the Cook Inlet Historical Society’s 2025-2026 speaker series.
About the Speaker
Ivan Hodes is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a former educator in the Anchorage School District. He holds a degree in European history from the United States Military Academy. A member of the Friends of the Nike Site Summit Board, he is the principal author of “Alaska’s Cold War Landmark: Nike Site Summit at Arctic Valley,’ an illustrated guide to the Nike-Hercules missile battery overlooking Anchorage.
