Michael Dobbs, author of One Minute to Midnight, provides a detailed step by step account of the Crisis on Twitter.  https://twitter.com/missilecrisis62

Everyone interested in the Cuban Missile Crisis should read One Minute to Midnight.

The Foreign Policy article he wrote can be found at: https://cubanmissilecrisis.foreignpolicy.com/blog/630847 and his New York Times article is at: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/opinion/the-eyeball-to-eyeball-myth-and-the-cuban-missile-crisiss-legacy.html?_r=0