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One minute to midnight : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war / Michael Dobbs.

By:

Dobbs, Michael, 1950-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: 1 minute to midnightPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 426 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9781400043583

Subject(s):

Cuban missile crisis, 1962

DDC classification:

972.9106 DOB

LOC classification:

E841 .D573 2008

Summary: A reporter for The Washington Post, Dobbs sets out a minute-by-minute account of the 13 days in October 1962 when the US and the Soviet Union were reported to be on the verge of unleashing nuclear weapons on each other because of Soviet missiles in Cuba. He combines the techniques of historian and journalist, and chose the moment when much archival material has become available, when many of the key players are still alive to talk, and when most American alive today were not born yet and have never heard of the crisis. The title refers to the Doomsday Clock, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist uses to indicate the risk of nuclear war by how many minutes are left until midnight; it has never been one.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	972.9106 DOB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		014044

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A reporter for The Washington Post, Dobbs sets out a minute-by-minute account of the 13 days in October 1962 when the US and the Soviet Union were reported to be on the verge of unleashing nuclear weapons on each other because of Soviet missiles in Cuba. He combines the techniques of historian and journalist, and chose the moment when much archival material has become available, when many of the key players are still alive to talk, and when most American alive today were not born yet and have never heard of the crisis. The title refers to the Doomsday Clock, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist uses to indicate the risk of nuclear war by how many minutes are left until midnight; it has never been one.

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