One minute to midnight
Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war
by Michael Dobbs (historian) and Michael Dobbs
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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 this hour-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 Guantanamo; 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, Sources, History, Nonfiction, Large type books, Cuban missile crisis, 1962, New York Times reviewed, Cuba-crisis, Kubakrise, Diplomatic relations, Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) fast (OCoLC)fst00884799, Foreign relations, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2008-07-13, New York Times bestsellerPlaces
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One minute to midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war
2008, Thorndike Press
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
June 3, 2008, Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf
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