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  • Published: 16 March 2022
  • ISBN: 9780307386335
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 640
  • RRP: $37.99
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Gambling with Armageddon

Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis




From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus comes the first effort to set the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War—how such a crisis arose and why, at the very last possible moment, it never happened.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus comes the first effort to set the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War—how such a crisis arose and why, at the very last possible moment, it never happened.

“Fresh and thrilling.... A fascinating work of history that is very relevant to today’s politics.” —Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of The Code Breaker

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Martin J. Sherwin introduces a dramatic new view of how luck and leadership avoided a nuclear holocaust during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Set within the sweep of the Cold War and its nuclear history, every chapter of this gripping narrative of the origins and resolution of history’s most dangerous thirteen days offers lessons and a warning for our time. Gambling with Armageddon presents a riveting, page turning account of the crisis as well as an original exploration of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the Post-World War II world.

  • Published: 16 March 2022
  • ISBN: 9780307386335
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 640
  • RRP: $37.99
Categories:

Praise for Gambling with Armageddon

"Riveting. . . . Sherwin provides a fresh and thrilling account of the Cuban Missile Crisis and also puts it into historical perspective. . . . A fascinating work of history that is very relevant to today's politics." --Walter Isaacson, author of Leonardo da Vinci

"Intricately detailed, vividly written, and nearly Tolstoyan in scope." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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