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This 4 page paper discusses the book "One Hell of a Gamble" about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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U.S. and U.S.S.R. known as the "Cold War." This paper discusses aspects of the book. The Authors The authors of this work are Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali.
Fursenko is Chairman of the History Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which gives him unique access to documents not previously known in the West. Timothy Naftali
teaches history at Yale "where he is a fellow at International Security Studies" (Giglio, 1998). The book then is truly an international project and represents a solid cooperation between
an American and a Russian who are interested in bringing the truth of that crisis to light. Discussion We want to try and answer some specific questions with regard
to this book. First, does it deal with an important issue? The answer: absolutely! This was a moment in history in which it really seemed as
though America and the U.S.S.R. were going to launch a nuclear war. The objective of the book is to bring to light the actual facts of what happened
during the weeks of the crisis, based on information that is only now being made available. For example, its only since the collapse of the Soviet Union that Western
historians have had access to many of the documents in the Soviet archives, and they give us the other side of the story. In addition, the book reveals that
we were much closer to nuclear war than was believed, even at the time, because the Russian missiles in Cuba were armed with nuclear warheads (Miner, 1997). This is
a sobering thought and a lesson for the future. Is there an argument in the book? Steven Miner, in an analytic review, suggest that the real argument (as in
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