{"product_id":"books-gambling-with-armageddon-by-martin-j-sherwin","title":"Gambling with Armageddon","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Prometheus\u003c\/i\u003e 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 didn't happen.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes hour-by-hour explanation of the crisis itself, but also explores the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post-World War II world. Mining new sources and materials, and going far beyond the scope of earlier works on this critical face-off between the United States and the Soviet Union--triggered when Khrushchev began installing missiles in Cuba at Castro's behest--Sherwin shows how this volatile event was an integral part of the wider Cold War and was a consequence of nuclear arms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGambling with Armageddon \u003c\/i\u003elooks in particular at the original debate in the Truman Administration about using the Atomic Bomb; the way in which President Eisenhower relied on the threat of massive retaliation to project U.S. power in the early Cold War era; and how President Kennedy, though unprepared to deal with the Bay of Pigs debacle, came of age during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Here too is a clarifying picture of what was going on in Khrushchev's Soviet Union. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMartin Sherwin has spent his career in the study of nuclear weapons and how they have shaped our world\u003ci\u003e. Gambling with Armegeddon\u003c\/i\u003e is an outstanding capstone to his work thus far.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53508390650129,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780307266880.jpg?v=1778145892","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-gambling-with-armageddon-by-martin-j-sherwin","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}