One minute to midnight : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war

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Label

One minute to midnight : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war

Title remainder

Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war

Statement of responsibility

Michael Dobbs

Creator

• Dobbs, Michael, 1950-

Author

• Dobbs, Michael, 1950-

Subject

• Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016
• Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016
• Cold War
• Cuba
• Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States
• Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Sources
• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 | Sources
• Diplomatic relations
• Diplomatic relations
• 1953-1963
• Kennedy, John F., (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
• Kennedy, John F., (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
• Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971
• Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971
• Kubakrise
• Sources
• United States
• United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961
• United States -- Foreign relations -- 1961-1963
• United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba
• Kennedy, John F, (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
• Castro, Fidel, 1926-

Genre

• Sources

Language

eng

Summary

In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran journalist Michael Dobbs has used 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, he takes us onto the decks of American ships patrolling Cuba; inside sweltering Soviet submarines and missile units as they ready their warheads; and inside the White House and the Kremlin as Kennedy and Khrushchev--rational, intelligent men separated by an ocean of ideological suspicion--agonize over the possibility of war. He shows how these two leaders recognized the terrifying realities of the nuclear age while Castro--never swayed by conventional political considerations--demonstrated the messianic ambition of a man selected by history for a unique mission.--From publisher description

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973.922

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

E841

LC item number

.D573 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography