TY  - BOOK
AU  - PLOKHY Serhii
TI  - Nuclear folly: a history of the Cuban missile crisis
SN  - 9781324035985 (pbk.)
U1  - 972.4 PLO 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York: 
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, 1962
KW  - COLD WAR
KW  - NUCLEAR CRISIS CONTROL
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - 20TH CENTURY
KW  - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
KW  - UNITED STATES
KW  - FOREIGN RELATIONS
KW  - 1961-1963
KW  - CUBA
KW  - 1959-1990
KW  - SOVIET UNION
KW  - 1953-1975
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - A dramatic re-creation and urgent examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis. 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 return to the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, involving John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground. 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 avoided for one central reason: fear. Serhii 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
ER  -