One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War DSBH Date: 7/17/1980

Date: 7/17/1980

nothing bad could happen

Philip Golub depicts the long American journey to global ascendancy

But when they cross paths with a mysterious child

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War DSBH Date: 7/17/1980Author Contributor(s): Dobbs, Michael Publisher: Vintage Date: 6 2 2009 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In this hour by hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came to Armageddon. Here, for the first time, are