The Resource Nuclear folly : a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Serhii Plokhy
Nuclear folly : a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Serhii Plokhy
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 444 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates
- Contents
-
- Apprentice
- Master of the game
- Triumph of communism
- Rocket man
- Going nuclear
- Operation Anadyr
- High seas
- Prisoner of Berlin
- Tip-off
- Honeymoon
- "Wipe them out"
- Quarantine
- Moscow night
- Blinking in the dark
- Wooden knife
- The Americans are coming!
- Turkish Quagmire
- Losing control
- "Target destroyed!"
- Secret rendezvous
- Bermuda Triangle
- Sunday scare
- Winners and losers
- Indignation
- Mission impossible
- Back at the barricade
- Thanksgiving
- Isbn
- 9780393540819
- Label
- Nuclear folly : a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Title
- Nuclear folly
- Title remainder
- a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Statement of responsibility
- Serhii Plokhy
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1957-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Plokhy, Serhii
- Dewey number
- 972.9106/4
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E841
- LC item number
- .P55 2021
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- Cold War
- Nuclear crisis control
- International relations
- United States
- Cuba
- Soviet Union
- Label
- Nuclear folly : a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Serhii Plokhy
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-428) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Apprentice -- Master of the game -- Triumph of communism -- Rocket man -- Going nuclear -- Operation Anadyr -- High seas -- Prisoner of Berlin -- Tip-off -- Honeymoon -- "Wipe them out" -- Quarantine -- Moscow night -- Blinking in the dark -- Wooden knife -- The Americans are coming! -- Turkish Quagmire -- Losing control -- "Target destroyed!" -- Secret rendezvous -- Bermuda Triangle -- Sunday scare -- Winners and losers -- Indignation -- Mission impossible -- Back at the barricade -- Thanksgiving
- Control code
- on1243901968
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 444 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates
- Isbn
- 9780393540819
- Lccn
- 2020033221
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1243901968
- Label
- Nuclear folly : a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Serhii Plokhy
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-428) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Apprentice -- Master of the game -- Triumph of communism -- Rocket man -- Going nuclear -- Operation Anadyr -- High seas -- Prisoner of Berlin -- Tip-off -- Honeymoon -- "Wipe them out" -- Quarantine -- Moscow night -- Blinking in the dark -- Wooden knife -- The Americans are coming! -- Turkish Quagmire -- Losing control -- "Target destroyed!" -- Secret rendezvous -- Bermuda Triangle -- Sunday scare -- Winners and losers -- Indignation -- Mission impossible -- Back at the barricade -- Thanksgiving
- Control code
- on1243901968
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 444 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates
- Isbn
- 9780393540819
- Lccn
- 2020033221
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1243901968
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