TY  - BOOK
AU  - George,Alice L.
TI  - The Cuban missile crisis: : the threshold of nuclear war 
T2  - Critical moments in American history
SN  - 9780415899727
AV  - 107 E 841  G347c 2013
U1  - 972.9106/4 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Relaciones exteriores
KW  - Crisis de los misiles en Cuba, 1962
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Includes bibliographical references and index; The chill of the nuclear age -- Kennedy and Khrushchev -- The ticking clock -- A world on edge -- Into the dark -- Moving ahead, looking back
N2  - ?For thirteen days in October of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the United States and USSR, as the superpowers argued over the installation of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba. Launched by rash judgment and concluded through circumspect leadership, the Cuban Missile Crisis acted as a catalyst for change during the Cold War. Resolved through back-channel negotiations, the moment is popularly remembered as the closest the world has ever come to full-scale nuclear war.Using government memoranda, personal letters, and newspaper articles The C
ER  -