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100 1 $aDobbs, Michael,$d1950-
245 10 $aOne minute to midnight :$bKennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war /$cMichael Dobbs.
246 3 $a1 minute to midnight
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2008.
300 $axvi, 426 p., [24] p.of plates :$bmaps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [363]-405) and index.
520 $aIn October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran journalist Michael Dobbs has used previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour chronicle, he takes us onto the decks of American ships patrolling Cuba; inside sweltering Soviet submarines and missile units as they ready their warheads; and inside the White House and the Kremlin as Kennedy and Khrushchev--rational, intelligent men separated by an ocean of ideological suspicion--agonize over the possibility of war. He shows how these two leaders recognized the terrifying realities of the nuclear age while Castro--never swayed by conventional political considerations--demonstrated the messianic ambition of a man selected by history for a unique mission.--From publisher description.
505 0 $aAmericans -- Russians -- Cubans -- "Eyeball to eyeball" -- "Till hell freezes over -- Intel -- Nukes -- Strike first -- Hunt for the "Grozny" -- Shootdown -- "Some sonofabitch" -- "Run like hell" -- Cat and mouse -- "Crate and return."
650 0 $aCuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
650 0 $aCuban Missile Crisis, 1962$vSources.
600 10 $aKennedy, John F.$q(John Fitzgerald),$d1917-1963.
600 10 $aKhrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich,$d1894-1971.
600 10 $aCastro, Fidel,$d1926-
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zCuba.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1953-1961.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1961-1963.
651 0 $aCuba$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aDobbs, Michael, 1950-$tOne minute to midnight.$b1st ed.$dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008$w(OCoLC)608213334
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