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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
A A Fursenko; Timothy J Naftali |
| ISBN: | 0393040704 9780393040708 |
| OCLC Number: | 36225332 |
| Description: | xi, 420 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | "Where does Castro stand regarding Russia?" -- Our man in Havana -- La Coubre -- "Cuba si, Yankee no!" -- Bay of Pigs -- The education of a president -- Condor and Mongoose -- Trouble in the tropics -- The nuclear decision -- Anadyr -- "Now we can swat your ass" -- Ex comm -- Missile crisis -- Climax of the Cold War -- Mikoyan's mission -- To the American University speech -- Dallas and Moscow. |
| Responsibility: | Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali. |
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Abstract:
A look at newly opened Russian archives reveals just how close we got to nuclear Armageddon during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba.
- Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1961.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1961-1963.
- Buitenlandse politiek.
- Koude Oorlog.
- Cuba-crisis.
- FOREIGN RELATIONS
- UNITED STATES
- CUBA
- USSR
- CUBA SITUATION
- Außenpolitik.
- Kuba.
- Sowjetunion.
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