Week the World Stood Still

Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis

Autor: Sheldon M. Stern

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Stanford University Press

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The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous...

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Autor

Sheldon M. Stern

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2005

strony

256

EAN

9780804750776

ISBN

0804750777

Enbook ID

04717858

Wydawca

Stanford University Press

Waga

354

Wymiary

155 x 227 x 15

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The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history. In this dramatic narrative written especially for students and general readers, Sheldon M. Stern, longtime historian at the John R Kennedy Library, enables the reader to follow the often harrowing twists and turns of the crisis. Based on the author's authoritative transcriptions of the secretly recorded ExComm meetings, the book conveys the emotional ambiance of the meetings by capturing striking moments of tension and anger as well as occasional humorous intervals. Unlike today's readers, the participants did not have the luxury of knowing how this potentially catastrophic showdown would turn out, and their uncertainty often gives their discussions the nerveracking quality of a fictional thriller. As President Kennedy told his advisers, "What we are doing is throwing down a card on the table in a game which we don't know the ending of." Stern documents that JFK and his administration bore a substantial share of the responsibility for the crisis. Covert operations in Cuba, including efforts to kill Fidel Castro, had convinced Nikita Khrushchev that only the deployment of nuclear weapons could protect Cuba from imminent attack. However, President Kennedy, a seasoned Cold Warrior in Public, was deeply suspicious of military solutions to political problems and appalled by the prospect of nuclear war. He consistently steered policy makers away from an apocalyptic nuclear conflict, measuring each move and counter-move with an eye to averting what he called, with stark eloquence, "the final failure." Stanford Nuclear Age Series

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