208 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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For thirteen days in October of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the United States and USSR, as the superpowers argued over the installation of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba. Launched by rash judgment and concluded through circumspect leadership, the Cuban Missile Crisis acted as a catalyst for change during the Cold War. Resolved through back-channel... Read more
Chapter 1-Understanding the Cuban Missile Crisis
Chapter 2-Countries in Tension
Chapter 3-October 1962
Chapter 4-Nuclear Precedents and the Legacy of the Crisis
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Biography
Alice L. George is an independent historian. She is the author of Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis and The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Political Trauma and American Memory (Routledge 2012).
