text Gambling with Armageddon : nuclear roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962
- Summary
- Sherwin sets the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War: how such a crisis arose, and why at the very last possible moment it didn't happen. He gives us a riveting explanatio... Read more
- Contents
- Prologue -- The making of the nuclear age, 1945-1962. Truman and Stalin ; Eisenhower, Khrushchev, Castro, and the "weapon of mass destruction" ; Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro, and the Bay of Pigs -- The thirteen days, October 16-28, 1962. Khrushchev... Read more
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- Description
- xvi, 604 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Publisher
- 2020
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Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Nuclear crisis control United States History 20th century
Arms race History 20th century
World politics 1945-1955
World politics 1955-1965
Nuclear warfare United States History
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963
Arms race
Nuclear crisis control
Nuclear warfare
World politics
United States
HISTORY / United States / General
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