Description: Nuclear Folly : A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Hardcover by Plokhy, Serhii, ISBN 0393540812, ISBN-13 9780393540819, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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 atomic age, we must return to the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, involving John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground. More often than not, the Americans and Soviets misread each other, operated under false information, and came perilously close to nuclear catastrophe. Despite these errors, nuclear war was avoided for one central reason: fear. Serhii Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama and anxiety of those tense days, and provides a way for us to grapple with the problems posed in our present day"--
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Book Title: Nuclear Folly : a History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Item Height: 1.5 in
Publication Year: 2021
Topic: Military / Nuclear Warfare, United States / 20th Century, International Relations / Arms Control, United States / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 23.6 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Serhii Plokhy
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
