Download The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis: Stanford Nuclear Age Series AudioBook Free
The Cuban missile turmoil was the most dangerous confrontation of the Chilly Battle and the most perilous moment in time in American background. In this dramatic narrative written specifically for students and standard listeners, Sheldon M. Stern, longtime historian at the John F. Kennedy Collection, enables the listener to check out the often harrowing twists and changes of the turmoil. Predicated on the author's authoritative transcriptions of the secretly saved ExComm meetings, the e book conveys the psychological mood of the meetings by capturing dazzling moments of pressure and anger as well as infrequent humorous intervals. Unlike today's visitors, the participants did not have the blissful luxury of focusing on how this possibly catastrophic showdown would turn out, and their uncertainty often provides their discussions the nerve-racking quality of an fictional thriller. As Leader Kennedy told his advisers, "Everything we are doing is tossing down a cards up for grabs in a game which we have no idea the ending of." Stern documents that JFK and his administration bore a considerable share of the duty for the turmoil. Covert operations in Cuba, including efforts to wipe out Fidel Castro, possessed persuaded Nikita Khrushchev that only the deployment of nuclear weapons could protect Cuba from imminent attack. However, Leader Kennedy, a practiced Cold Warrior in public, was deeply suspicious of military solutions to political problems and appalled by the chance of nuclear conflict. He regularly steered policy makers away from an apocalyptic nuclear issue, measuring each move and countermove with an eye to averting what he called, with stark eloquence, "the ultimate failure." The e book is posted by Stanford College or university Press.
