Gambling With Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette From Hiroshima To The Cuban Missile Crisis - Paperback
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9760307386337
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9780307386335

Gambling With Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette From Hiroshima To The Cuban Missile Crisis

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Author
Sherwin, Martin J.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Martin J. Sherwin introduces a dramatic new view of how luck and leadership avoided a nuclear holocaust during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Set within the sweep of the Cold War and its nuclear history, every chapter of this gripping narrative of the origins and resolution of history’s most dangerous thirteen days offers lessons and a warning for our time. Gambling with Armageddon presents a riveting, page turning account of the crisis as well as an original exploration of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the Post-World War II world.

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