Book Review: The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Threshold of Nuclear War

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Alice L. George , The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Threshold of Nuclear War (New York : Routledge , 2013, $29.95). Pp. 192. isbn 978 0 415 89972 7 .

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Few events in world history have intrigued scholars more than the Cuban missile crisis. This intrigue is hardly surprising, given how closely the United States and the Soviet Union were considering nuclear war after Soviet nuclear missiles were stationed on Cuba in October 1962. Even though these missiles were eventually disassembled and transported back to Russia, whether John F. Kennedy or Nikita Khrushchev ultimately emerged victorious from the crisis - or if there was, in fact, a "victor" - has been the subject of widespread historical debate. Beyond these debates, Kennedy and Khrushchev's fateful diplomacy also sparked far-reaching questions about the limitations of nuclear brinkmanship and the future of defence policies between competing nuclear powers.

Alice George's The Cuban Missile Crisis