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In The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History, Second Edition, Don Munton and David A. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the Cuban missile crisis into a...

The decision whether to use nuclear weapons that faced political and military leaders forty-five years ago may be the choices facing leaders in crises situations today and in the future. In this spirit, Professor Scott has written a book of compelling interest.The Cuban Missile Crisis is the term used in the west to describe the events of October 1962, described by Robert Kennedy as the world brought to the abyss of nuclear destruction and the end of mankind. On 27 October that year, Robert McNamara...

In The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History, Second Edition, Don Munton and David A. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the Cuban missile crisis into a brief and accessible narrative history. The authors draw on newly available documents to provide a comprehensive treatment of its causes, events, consequences, and significance. Stressing the importance of context in relation to the genesis, conduct, and resolution of the crisis, Munton and Welch examine events from the U.S., Soviet...

The Nuclear Age: History of the Arms Race from Hiroshima to Star Wars by John Newhouse (Author) Format: Hardcover (508 pages) Edition: 1st Edition ISBN 10: 0718132637 ISBN 13: 9780718132637 Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd Published: 05 Jan 1989 Temporarily out of stock Item Condition: Used - Good Price:£2.59List Price: £15.95You Save:£13.36 (84%) Temporarily out of stock Add to wishlist Or buy from Amazon.co.uk Description:First published in 1989 by Michael Joseph in hardback with dustjacket...

History has been rewritten.It's up to you todetermine the future.Product InformationCuba 1962...A world on the brink of disaster holds its breath as two superpowers vie for supremacy.The silence is shattered by a tiny Caribbeanisland nation barely 90 miles from the continental United States.Theworld changes instantly as strategic missiles fly from secret installations onCuban soil.Now four coalitions have emerged to contest for domination ofa changed planet. There have been times when the Doomsday...

Pres John Kennedy Addresses UN General Assembly a Month before Cuban Missile Crisis, Sept 25, 1962 - - Photographic Print from AllPosters.co.uk

US Marine Commandant David M. Shoup at Guantanamo Bay Base During the Cuban Missile Crisis - - Premium Photographic Print from Art.co.uk

A case study of decision making under pressure, this text covers the Cuban missile crisis. Using the missile crisis as a basic frame of reference, it seeks to teach...

US Armed Forcese Destroyer Sullivan in Guantanamo Bay at the Time of the Cuban Missile Crisis - - Photographic Print from AllPosters.co.uk

President John F. Kennedy Looking Serious on Telephone in White House during Cuban Missile Crisis - Art Rickerby - Premium Photographic Print from AllPosters.co.uk

President John Kennedy Steps from His Limousine During the Cuban Missile Crisis - - Photographic Print from Art.co.uk

This text presents the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis as they unfold in the actual words of President John F. Kennedy and his top advisors.

Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis examines for the first time the role and performance of all three intelligence communities centrally involved in this seminal event: American, Soviet and Cuban. The ways in which organizational and personality variables affect the political exploitation of intelligence is assessed followed by an analysis of the psychology of intelligence assessment, showing how common cognitive and motivational pathologies can explain crucial errors of inference and attribution...

The Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States came to nuclear war during the Cold War era. Facing down the buildup of Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962, President John F. Kennedy took a calculated risk and succeeded in negotiating the removal of those weapons after weeks of teetering on the brink of war. This riveting narrative and ready-reference guide captures the drama of that crisis. Eleven chapters trace the unfolding of events from the United States, Cuban, and Soviet perspectives...