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Dark Beyond Darkness - The Cuban Missile Crisis as History, Warning, and Catalyst (Hardcover)
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Dark Beyond Darkness - The Cuban Missile Crisis as History, Warning, and Catalyst (Hardcover)
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In Dark Beyond Darkness, James Blight and janet Lang, among the
world's foremost authorities on the Cuban missile crisis,
synthesize the findings from their thirty-year project on the most
dangerous moment in recorded history. Authoritative, accessible,
and written with their usual flair and wit, DBD is the first book
to take readers deeply inside the experience and calculations of
Fidel Castro, who was willing to martyr Cuba if his new Russian
ally would nuke the U.S. and destroy it. Blight and Lang have
established that in October 1962, the world was on the brink of
Armageddon, and that we escaped by luck. Their history is scary but
unimpeachably accurate: we just barely escaped the cold and the
dark in October 1962. Their history also comes with a warning: we
are currently at risk not only of Armageddon-fast, in a war between
superpowers, but Armageddon-in-Slow-Motion (the result a climate
catastrophe following a regional nuclear war), and from Armageddon,
Oops! (a conflict sparked by an accident, which is misinterpreted,
and ends in nuclear war). Drawing on the insights of poets,
musicians and novelists, as well as climate scientists and
agronomists, they show the terrible risk we run by refusing to
abolish nuclear weapons.
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