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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

Name: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Michael Dobbs
ISBN: 9781400078912

Michael Dobbs

02/06/2009
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War par Michael Dobbs

Résumé

In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In thishour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came to Armageddon. Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo; the handling of Soviet nuclear warheads on Cuba; and the extraordinary story of a U-2 spy plane that got lost over Russia at the peak of the crisis. Written like a thriller, One Minute to Midnight is an exhaustively researched account of what Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called “the most dangerous moment in human history,” and the definitive book on the Cuban missile crisis.