The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Threshold of Nuclear War

by Alice L. George

Book Overview

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 negotiations, the moment is popularly remembered as the closest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415899729
• ISBN13: 9780415899727
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"