When Angels Wept

A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Szerző: Eric G. Swedin

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Kiadó: Potomac Books Inc

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In 1961 at the Bay of Pigs, CIA-trained and organized Cuban exiles aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro...

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Szerző

Eric G. Swedin

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2010

oldal

316

EAN

9781597975179

ISBN

1597975176

Enbook ID

04832835

Kiadó

Potomac Books Inc

Súly

614

Méretek

160 x 236 x 29

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In 1961 at the Bay of Pigs, CIA-trained and organized Cuban exiles aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro were defeated, and most taken prisoner by Cuban armed forces. Fearing another U.S. invasion of its new ally, the Soviet Union sneaked into Cuba strategic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads and Soviet troops armed with tactical nuclear weapons. However, a U-2 flight over Cuba would soon find these Soviet missile sites, thus sparking the missile crisis. For thirteen days the world watched nervously as the two superpowers moved toward escalation and held the world's fate in their hands. Finally, Nikita Khrushchev blinked. He agreed to withdraw the weapons from Cuba in return for John F. Kennedy's pledge not to invade the island. But what if it had not turned out this way? What if the U-2 flight had been delayed? If the confrontation had set off a nuclear war, what would have happened to the United States and Soviet Union in 1962? What kind of account would a historian have written in a world scarred by nuclear war? Eric G. Swedin draws on research made available after the Soviet Union's collapse to examine what could have happened. Top U.S. military officers all urged stronger action against Cuba than the naval blockade, including a bombing campaign and even an invasion. Unknown to the Americans, meanwhile, the Soviet Union had tactical nuclear weapons in Cuba and were prepared to use them. The 1962 crisis had many possible outcomes. Examining an alternate history helps us better appreciate the dangers of that tense time. Such counterfactual speculation shows what the Cuban missile crisis could have wrought and how it was truly one of the most important moments of the twentieth century.

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A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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