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Nuclear folly a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis

"A dramatic re-creation and urgent examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomi...

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Main Author: Plokhy, Serhii, 1957- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Fitzgerald, Robert tribute.
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
Cold War.
Nuclear crisis control > History > 20th century.
International relations > History > 20th century.
United States > Foreign relations > 1961-1963.
Cuba > Foreign relations > 1959-1990.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > 1953-1975.
Table of Contents:
  • Apprentice
  • Master of the game
  • Triumph of communism
  • Rocket man
  • Going nuclear
  • Operation Anadyr
  • High seas
  • Prisoner of Berlin
  • Tip-off
  • Honeymoon
  • "Wipe them out"
  • Quarantine
  • Moscow night
  • Blinking in the dark
  • Wooden knife
  • The Americans are coming!
  • Turkish quagmire
  • Losing control
  • "Target destroyed!"
  • Secret rendezvous
  • Bermuda Triangle
  • Sunday scare
  • Winners and losers
  • Indignation
  • Mission impossible
  • Back at the barricade
  • Thanksgiving.

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