CIGI ’10: Climate of Action will explore how action, across all levels of government and society, could be mobilized and coordinated to generate near-term progress towards realizing the core elements of the effective and equitable global framework on climate we know is needed.

The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was the most dangerous crisis of the nuclear age. On the anniversary of the crisis, four distinguished scholars will take the stage at CIGI who have vast experience working with and on McNamara. They will address these questions: why did the crisis occur? What caused it to spin out of control? How close did the crisis come to nuclear war? What would likely have happened if nuclear weapons had been used by either side in or around Cuba? And what lessons do Robert McNamara’s experience of the crisis—both in October 1962 and in his subsequent historical research—offer to leaders and citizens alike who wish to reduce the risk of nuclear war in the 21st century so that nothing as dangerous as the missile crisis another never happens again?