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Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

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Abyss provides chastening lessons on how easily things can spiral out of control but also how catastrophe can be averted. Kennedy, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and Fidel Castro among many other important personalities are on full display. It seems mistaken to take for granted that President Kennedy would resist the urgings of his military chiefs to go to war, or that a conflict could thereafter have been confined to conventional weapons, since the choice would have been partially dependent upon the discretion and restraint of Soviet officers under American bombardment on Cuban battlefields.

It is a sobering reminder of how close we came to nuclear apocalypse and the importance of cool headed leaders, something which the world seems to lack more and more. Umas eram fáceis e obvias, outras, as mais difíceis, eram sempre complexas e implicavam perdas e ganhos.Biography: Max Hastings is the author of thirty books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. For the average British civilian especially, it was a particularly wrenching sensation knowing that a politician you did not vote for, in a distant country across the sea, might make a choice that destroys you. It is to the great fortune of the world that these two men were the leaders of their respective countries. We know (from maps) where the SAMs were, but somehow he missed where the actual nuclear warheads were. Either course of action might have ended in disaster if relatively junior Russian officers on Cuba had responded by using tactical nuclear weapons.

Despite the fact that the blame for starting the crisis lies solely with Khrushchev the great villains in the story are the US military leaders that were intent on pushing Kennedy to invade Cuba and were preparing invasion plans and Fidel Castro who was pushing Khrushchev to do a nuclear first strike on the US. of Tennessee at Knoxville) celebrates Pyle’s “dense, descriptive style” and his unusual feel for the quotidian GI experience—a personal and human side to war left out of reporting on generals and their strategies.

His remarkable gifts as a listener were seen to utmost advantage in the meetings of Excom at the White House, which concluded with clear, rational executive decisions.

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