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Nuclear Folly
A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Taschenbuch von Serhii Plokhy
Sprache: Englisch

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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.

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.

Über den Autor
Serhii Plokhy, author of The Russo-Ukrainian War, professor of Ukrainian history, and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, is a leading authority on the history of the Cold War. He lives in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Zeitgeschichte & Politik
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: ab 1949
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 444
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781324035985
ISBN-10: 1324035986
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 343598
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Plokhy, Serhii
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Norton & Company
Abbildungen: 8 pages of photographs and 2 maps
Maße: 206 x 137 x 31 mm
Von/Mit: Serhii Plokhy
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.10.2022
Gewicht: 0,382 kg
preigu-id: 121159539
Über den Autor
Serhii Plokhy, author of The Russo-Ukrainian War, professor of Ukrainian history, and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, is a leading authority on the history of the Cold War. He lives in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Zeitgeschichte & Politik
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: ab 1949
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 444
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781324035985
ISBN-10: 1324035986
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 343598
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Plokhy, Serhii
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Norton & Company
Abbildungen: 8 pages of photographs and 2 maps
Maße: 206 x 137 x 31 mm
Von/Mit: Serhii Plokhy
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.10.2022
Gewicht: 0,382 kg
preigu-id: 121159539
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