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| Genre/Form: | Sources |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Laurence Chang; Peter Kornbluh; National Security Archive (U.S.) |
| ISBN: | 1565844742 9781565844742 |
| OCLC Number: | 40952458 |
| Notes: | On cover: "Revised to include recently declassified documents." |
| Description: | xxviii, 429 pages : facsimiles, map ; 26 cm |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Prelude to the crisis -- pt. 2. Missile crisis -- pt. 3. November extension -- pt. 4. Cuban Missile Crisis: postmortems -- Cuban Missile Crisis: a chronology of events. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Laurence Chang and Peter Kornbluh. |
Abstract:
"Thirty-six years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, these declassified documents stand as testament to just how dangerously close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962, and challenge the official history of the event as a model of crisis management." "This collection of formerly secret records - including correspondence between John F. Kennedy, Nikita Krushchev, and Fidel Castro, as well as intelligence reports, minutes, and cables - provides a unique fly-on-the-wall view of the policy decisions and operations that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. The editors have provided a document-by-document account of the most important superpower confrontation of the twentieth century."--Jacket.
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