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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
By Serhii Plokhy
April 2021
464 pages
W.W. Norton
With President Vladimir Putin putting Russian nuclear forces on high alert several weeks ago, what book could be timelier than Serhii Plokhy's Nuclear Folly, an outstanding narrative of those desperate days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962?
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
By Serhii Plokhy
April 2021
464 pages
W.W. Norton
With President Vladimir Putin putting Russian nuclear forces on high alert several weeks ago, what book could be timelier than Serhii Plokhy's Nuclear Folly, an outstanding narrative of those desperate days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962?…