Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945–1962, by Martin J. Sherwin

Robert Weisbrot

doi:10.1163/22134360-09601049

Abstract

Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945–1962, by Martin J. Sherwin

Highlights

Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945–1962
New West Indian Guide via free access book reviews from low-level decision-makers beyond the purview or knowledge of the White House and the Kremlin
Declassified American, Russian, and Cuban sources have progressively complicated the narrative of the 1962 missile crisis so that the gravest clash of the Cold War is still coming into historical focus

Summary

Introduction

Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945–1962. Declassified American, Russian, and Cuban sources have progressively complicated the narrative of the 1962 missile crisis so that the gravest clash of the Cold War is still coming into historical focus. Martin Sherwin, a leading scholar of nuclear weapons, situates “the long missile crisis”

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