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The Cuban Missile Crisis - Thirteen Days on an Atomic Knife Edge, October 1962 (Paperback)
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The Cuban Missile Crisis - Thirteen Days on an Atomic Knife Edge, October 1962 (Paperback)
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When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the
end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long
before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the
wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil War. The
battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly
or not, in conflict zones such as Syria, Somalia and Ukraine. In an
era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, one such flashpoint was the
Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the
closest the world has yet come to nuclear war, a time when the
hands of the Doomsday Clock really did inch towards the witching
hour of midnight. By placing nuclear missiles on the Caribbean
island of Cuba where, potentially, they were able to threaten the
eastern seaboard of the USA, Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviet Union
escalated the Cold War to a level that everyone feared but had
never previously thought possible. In a desperate and dangerous
game of brinkmanship, for thirteen nerve-wracking days Premier
Khrushchev and President Kennedy held the fate of the world in
their hands. Kennedy, in particular, wrestled with a range of
options allow the missiles to stay, launch an air strike on the
sites or invade Cuba. In the end, he did none of these but the
solution to one of the deadliest dilemmas of the twentieth century
proved to be a brave and dramatic moment in human history.
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