Nuclear Folly

Nuclear Folly - Ediciones

3 ediciones

Nuclear Folly

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4199-328-7

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141993287

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 464

Fecha de publicación: 2022-10-06

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Nuclear Folly

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4199-329-4

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141993294

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 464

Fecha de publicación: 2021-04-13

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Nuclear Folly

Editorial: allen_lane

ISBN: 978-02-4153-989-7

ISBN sin guiones: 9780241539897

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 879

Fecha de publicación: 2021-04-13

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Disponible en otros idiomas

Nuclear Folly

S. M. Plokhy

Primera publicación: 2021-04-13

For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine and fallout; nuclear war between the two most-powerful nations on Earth. In Nuclear Folly , award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy tells the riveting story of those weeks, tracing the tortuous decision-making and calculated brinkmanship of John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and of their advisors and commanders on the ground. More often than not, Plokhy argues, the Americans and Soviets simply misread each other, operating under mutual distrust, second-guesses and false information. Despite all of this, nuclear disaster was avoided thanks to one very human reason: fear. Drawing on the impressive array of primary sources, including the recently declassified KGB files, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama of those tense days. Authoritative, fast-paced and unforgettable, this is the definitive new account of the Cold War's most perilous moment.