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Nuclear Folly - A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Hardcover)
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Nuclear Folly - A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Hardcover)
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Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world
leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their
nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To
survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the
most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis.
Serhii Plokhy's Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective
on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced
and then resolved it, which involved John Kennedy and his advisers,
Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the
ground. In breathtaking detail, Plokhy vividly recounts the young
JFK being played by the canny Khrushchev; the hotheaded Castro
willing to defy the USSR and threatening to align himself with
China; the Soviet troops on the ground clearing jungle foliage in
the tropical heat, and desperately trying to conceal nuclear
installations on Cuba, which were nonetheless easily spotted by U-2
spy planes; and the hair-raising near misses at sea that nearly
caused a Soviet nuclear-armed submarine to fire its weapons. More
often than not, the Americans and Soviets misread each other,
operated under false information, and came perilously close to
nuclear catastrophe. Despite these errors, nuclear war was
ultimately avoided for one central reason: fear, and the
realization that any escalation on either the Soviets' or the
Americans' part would lead to mutual destruction. Drawing on a
range of Soviet archival sources, including previously classified
KGB documents, as well as White House tapes, Plokhy masterfully
illustrates the drama and anxiety of those tense days, and provides
a way for us to grapple with the problems posed in our present day.
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