Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis

by Martin J. Sherwin

Book Overview

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus comes the first effort to set the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War--how such a crisis arose and why, at the very last possible moment, it never happened.

"Fresh and thrilling.... A fascinating work of history that is very relevant to today's politics." --Walter Isaacson, bestselling author...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307386333
• ISBN13: 9780307386335
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.1" x 7.9"