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020			_a9781324035985 (pbk.)
082			_a972.4 PLO
100			_aPLOKHY Serhii
245			_aNuclear folly: _ba history of the Cuban missile crisis/ _cby Serhii Plokhy
260			_aNew York: _bW. W. Norton & Company, _c[2021]
300			_axx, 444 pages: maps; 21 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
520			_aA 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.
650			_aCUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, 1962
650			_aCOLD WAR
650			_aNUCLEAR CRISIS CONTROL _xHISTORY _y20TH CENTURY
650			_aINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS _xHISTORY _y20TH CENTURY
650			_zUNITED STATES _xFOREIGN RELATIONS _y1961-1963
650			_zCUBA _xFOREIGN RELATIONS _y1959-1990
650			_zSOVIET UNION _xFOREIGN RELATIONS _y1953-1975
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