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The week the world stood still : inside the secret Cuban Missile Crisis
- Title
- The week the world stood still : inside the secret Cuban Missile Crisis / Sheldon M. Stern.
- Author
- Stern, Sheldon M.
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.
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- Description
- 238 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Stanford nuclear age series
- Uniform Title
- Stanford nuclear age series.
- Subjects
- Note
- Rev. and condensed version of: Averting 'the final failure' : John F. Kennedy and the secret Cuban Missile Crisis meetings. 2003.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-234) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The JFK Cuban Missile Crisis tapes -- 2. The making of the Cuban Missile Crisis -- The Cold War : JFK's crucible -- The Cold War and Cuba -- Nuclear confrontation in Cuba -- The Kennedy paradox -- Key members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council -- 3. The secret meetings of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council -- Epilogue : the November post-crisis.
- ISBN
- 0804750769 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804750777 (pbk : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004020532
- OCLC
- ocm56422086
- SCSB-5119360
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries