One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
by Michael Dobbs

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
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Author: Michael Dobbs
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-06-03
ISBN: 1400043581
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Knopf

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Book Review: We were in the midst of it
Summary: 5 Stars

As a Cuban exile I was training for a job in Key West when the October Missile Crisis exploded. I was twenty, my wife nineteen and our baby three months old.
The narrow over-the-water highway connecting the mainland to Key West was closed to civilian trafic. Hundreds of missile launchers were transported from Homestead, Fl. to Key West along with tanks, troops and war materiel.In a matter of hours all stores ran out of stock, just like during a Cat.5 hurricane warning.
"One Minute to Midnight" is so accurate and well researched that reading it was like re-living the nightmare of those days.
We were horrified about what would happen in the event of a Castro missile attack, and the only time we felt safe was when we heard the American F-14 fighter jets flying overhead day and night.
This book is a perfect example of accurate and well written contemporary history. I highly recommend it.
It is stored in our library under the section "Memories of Exile"
Signed: Andrew J. Rodriguez, author of "Adios, Havana," a memoir.




Summary of One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour chronicle of those near-fatal days, Dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that illustrate how close we came to Armageddon.

Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev’s plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guant?namo; the accidental overflight of the Soviet Union by an American spy plane; the movement of Soviet nuclear warheads around Cuba during the tensest days of the crisis; the activities of CIA agents inside Cuba; and the crash landing of an American F-106 jet with a live nuclear weapon on board.

Dobbs takes us inside the White House and the Kremlin as Kennedy and Khrushchev—rational, intelligent men separated by an ocean of ideological suspicion—agonize over the possibility of war. He shows how these two leaders recognized the terrifying realities of the nuclear age while Castro—never swayed by conventional political considerations—demonstrated the messianic ambition of a man selected by history for a unique mission. As the story unfolds, Dobbs brings us onto the decks of American ships patrolling Cuba; inside sweltering Soviet submarines and missile units as they ready their warheads; and onto the streets of Miami, where anti-Castro exiles plot the dictator’s overthrow.

Based on exhaustive new research and told in breathtaking prose, here is a riveting account of history’s most dangerous hours, full of lessons for our time.

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