Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis Fiction_Gift_Guide it was more than a

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As a youth

this artful indictment of small-town hypocrisy influenced Theodore Dreiser

Approximately 14 inches in size

Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis Fiction_Gift_Guide it was more than aFrom 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 Warhow 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 todays politics. Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of The Code Breaker Pulitzer