The Cuban missile crisis : the threshold of nuclear war / Alice L. George.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

George, Alice L., 1952- author.

Series:

Critical moments in American history.

Critical moments in American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

?For thirteen days in October of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the United States and USSR, as the superpowers argued over the installation of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba. Launched by rash judgment and concluded through circumspect leadership, the Cuban Missile Crisis acted as a catalyst for change during the Cold War. Resolved through back-channel negotiations, the moment is popularly remembered as the closest the world has ever come to full-scale nuclear war.Using government memoranda, personal letters, and newspaper articles The C

Contents:

The chill of the nuclear age

Kennedy and Khrushchev

The ticking clock

A world on edge

Into the dark

Moving ahead, looking back.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-17403-6

0-203-08149-8

1-299-38653-9

1-136-17404-4

9780203081495

OCLC:

833767556