Gambling with Armageddon : nuclear roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban missile crisis, 1945-1962

Author(s)

• Sherwin, Martin J.

Bibliographic Information

Gambling with Armageddon : nuclear roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban missile crisis, 1945-1962

Martin J. Sherwin

Alfred A. Knopf, 2020

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [553]-569) and index

"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso

• NCID: BC03602835
• ISBN:
  • 9780307266880
• LCCN: 2019057322
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 604 p. [16] p. of plates
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E841
  • DC23 : 972.9106/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
  • LCSH : Nuclear crisis control -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Arms race -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : World politics -- 1945-1955
  • LCSH : World politics -- 1955-1965
  • LCSH : Nuclear warfare -- United States -- History
  • LCSH : Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963