Gambling with Armageddon : nuclear roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962
Sherwin, Martin J.2022
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer' comes the first effort to set 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. This text introduces a dramatic new view of how luck and leadership avoided a nuclear holocaust during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Set within the sweep of the Cold War and its nuclear history, every chapter of this gripping narrative of the origins and resolution of history's most dangerous thirteen days offers lessons and a warning for our time. Gambling with Armageddon presents a riveting, page turning account of the crisis as well as an original exploration of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the Post-World War II world.
Main title:
Author:
Sherwin, Martin J., author
Work:
Edition:
First Vintage Books edition.
Imprint:
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022.©2022
Collation:
xvi, 604 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-569) and index.
ISBN:
9780307386335 (paperback)
Dewey class:
972.91064
Language:
English
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BRN:
435560