Nuclear folly : a new history of the Cuban missile crisis / Serhii Plokhy.
By: Plokhy, Serhii [author.]
.Publisher: London : Allen Lane, 2021Description: 444 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps.Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241454732.Subject(s): Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 | Cold War -- Diplomatic history | United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union | United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States | Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United StatesDDC classification: 973.922 Summary: "For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine and fallout; nuclear war between the two most-powerful nations on Earth. In Nuclear Folly, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy tells the riveting story of those weeks, tracing the tortuous decision-making and calculated brinkmanship of John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and of their advisors and commanders on the ground. More often than not, Plokhy argues, the Americans and Soviets simply misread each other, operating under mutual distrust, second-guesses and false information. Despite all of this, nuclear disaster was avoided thanks to one very human reason: fear. Drawing on an impressive array of primary sources, including recently declassified KGB files, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama of those tense days. Authoritative, fast-paced and unforgettable, this is the definitive new account of the Cold War's most perilous moment."-- Provided by publisher.
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| 973.921 NIC Ike and McCarthy : | 973.922 FRE Kennedy's wars : Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam / | 973.922 HAS Abyss : the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 / | 973.922 PLO Nuclear folly : a new history of the Cuban missile crisis / | 973.922 STE The week the world stood still : | 973.922 STE The Cuban Missile Crisis in American memory : | 973.923092 SHE Mutual contempt : |
"For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine and fallout; nuclear war between the two most-powerful nations on Earth. In Nuclear Folly, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy tells the riveting story of those weeks, tracing the tortuous decision-making and calculated brinkmanship of John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and of their advisors and commanders on the ground. More often than not, Plokhy argues, the Americans and Soviets simply misread each other, operating under mutual distrust, second-guesses and false information. Despite all of this, nuclear disaster was avoided thanks to one very human reason: fear. Drawing on an impressive array of primary sources, including recently declassified KGB files, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama of those tense days. Authoritative, fast-paced and unforgettable, this is the definitive new account of the Cold War's most perilous moment."-- Provided by publisher.