One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
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In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour chronicle of those near-fatal days, Dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that illustrate how close we came to Armageddon.

Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchevâ€™s plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at GuantÃ¡namo; the accidental overflight of the Soviet Union by an American spy plane; the movement of Soviet nuclear warheads around Cuba during the tensest days of the crisis; the activities of CIA agents inside Cuba; and the crash landing of an American F-106 jet with a live nuclear weapon on board.

Dobbs takes us inside the White House and the Kremlin as Kennedy and Khrushchevâ€”rational, intelligent men separated by an ocean of ideological suspicionâ€”agonize over the possibility of war. He shows how these two leaders recognized the terrifying realities of the nuclear age while Castroâ€”never swayed by conventional political considerationsâ€”demonstrated the messianic ambition of a man selected by history for a unique mission. As the story unfolds, Dobbs brings us onto the decks of American ships patrolling Cuba; inside sweltering Soviet submarines and missile units as they ready their warheads; and onto the streets of Miami, where anti-Castro exiles plot the dictatorâ€™s overthrow.

Based on exhaustive new research and told in breathtaking prose, here is a riveting account of historyâ€™s most dangerous hours, full of lessons for our time.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Alfred A. Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2008-06-03
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9781400043583

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Alfred A. Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2008-06-03
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9781400043583

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

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