The Cuban Missile Crisis: Thirteen Days on an Atomic Knife Edge, October 1962

This gripping Cold War history chronicles the events that brough the world to the edge of nuclear war—and the political drama that averted disaster.

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the closest the world has yet come to nuclear war, a time when the hands of the Doomsday Clock really did inch towards the witching hour of midnight. By placing nuclear missiles on the Caribbean island of Cuba where, potentially, they were able to threaten the eastern seaboard of the USA, Nikita Khrushchev a...