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

Vintage Books, 2022

• : pbk.

Note

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A.Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2020"--T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. [553]-569

Includes index

Details

• NCID: BC11715826
• ISBN:
  • 9780307386335
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 604 p., [8] leaves of plates
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 972.91064
• 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