The Missile Crisis from a Cuban Perspective: Historical, Archaeological and Anthropological Reflections, by Håkan Karlsson & Tomás Diez Acosta
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Abstract
The twin purposes of this intriguing little volume are to provide "a historical overview that explains the background and prelude to the [Cuban missile] crisis from a Cuban perspective" and "an archaeological and anthropological investigation of the material and immaterial remains of the crisis located at the former Soviet strategic nuclear missile bases and among people living in their surroundings in the Cuban countryside"-two "themes and dimensions" of the crisis that "have seldom-or never-been presented before" (p.ix).The former, the subject of Part One, was obviously the primary task of Tomás Diez Acosta, a prominent Cuban historian.The second, treated in Part Two, was evidently the chief responsibility of Håkan Karlsson, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.Their collaboration in this volume presents "a summary of the work carried out so far" in a project entitled "World Crisis from Below" (p.138), whose admirable task is to help correct the great-power-centric and overwhelmingly political or strategic accounts of what is arguably the most dangerous episode in human history by foregrounding subaltern perspectives.Part One (six chapters) offers a businesslike, efficient, though occasionally overly terse historical summary.It faithfully presents what has become the standard Cuban story of the crisis-one that has indeed "seldom" been presented before.For the most part, however, it is not new, hewing quite closely to the more detailed presentation and analysis in James G. Blight et al., Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse (2nd ed., 2002).Indeed, Chapter 6, "Fidel Castro's Reflections on the Missile Crisis"-is virtually a verbatim reprinting of parts of the conference transcript that forms the heart of that earlier book.While Karlsson and Diez cite this work extensively, they do not draw on other works in which the Cuban perspective is presented in extensive detail, such as Thomas G. Weiss & James G. Blight (eds.),The Suffering Grass: Superpowers and Regional Conflict in Southern Africa and the Caribbean (1992) and James G
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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