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The Nuclear Deception: Nikita Khrushchev and the Cuban Missile Crisis
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by Servando Gonzalez
Sales Rank: 1567093
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List Price: $24.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 432 pages
Published by: Spooks Books October 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0971139156
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0971139152
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Book Description
The event known as the Cuban missile crisis, the greatest of all Cold War crises, is a milestone in the history of the Cold War. Some analysts even have concluded that what was called the Cold War ended in 1962 with the Cuban missile crisis. Yet there is perhaps no single event in recent history as puzzling as this one. There are many questions that still remain unanswered. Why did Khrushchev risk so much? What was his ultimate purpose? Why did he withdraw so fast? Why did he not retaliate at other sensitive points, like Berlin? Why did President Kennedy not seize the heaven-sent opportunity to get rid of Castro? Why did the Americans permit the shootdown of a U-2 plane over Cuba without taking retaliatory actions? Who shot down the U-2, and under what conditions did it happen? Why did Kennedy allow the Soviet ships to leave Cuba without boarding them, to physically verify that the canvas-covered objects on deck were actually missiles and their nuclear warheads on their way back to the U.S.S.R.? According to the author, the main questions of the crisis have eluded satisfactory answers, first, because most of the analysts who have studied it have neglected the true Cuban role in the event, particularly the Russo-Cuban relations prior to the crisis; secondly, because a set of preconceived notions --like the one that assumes that Khrushchev was full of love for Castro-- have acted as a smoke screen, blurring the whole picture; and, finally, because the fundamental question about the crisis, namely, why Khrushchev installed strategic nuclear missiles in Cuba, has been erroneously formulated. Consequently, it has been impossible to find the right answer to a question, when the question itself is wrong.
Reader Reviews
Weird to see the author writing his own review of his book. He is quite correct in his idea that there were no nuclear warheads in Cuba. He is wrong in claiming that this is the first book to show this: Amy Gdala's The Odds Are Even ( first written in 1989) makes exactly the same point. Gdala's book is based on close research of the memoirs of all the key players including the secret services as well as the ideologues like Acheson and the "stars" such as Kennedy and Kruschev. The two books should be read together as this one is thoroughgoing nonfiction while Gdala's is written as a novel and provides a wider perspective by locating the crisis in the context of the genesis of the Cold War itself. It is interesting that subsequent material seems to conflict with the main conclusion of these two books, the thrust of this is really Castro's own claim at the anniversary seminar. If I had been in Castro's shoes at that meeting I would have made the same claim and had a good chuckle over it afterwards with my mates. Make no mistake the warheads were invented for political purposes, like the Soviet threat itself. Penkovsky was the whistle blower to whom we owe our lives.The Odds are Even (Probability Sequence)
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