The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory write by Sheldon M Stern. This book was released on 2012-09-05. The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Marshals irrefutable evidence to succinctly demolish the mythic version of the crisis . . . sober analysis.” —The Atlantic This book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations. More than a half-century after the event, it is surely time to demonstrate, once and for all, that Robert F. Kennedy’s Thirteen Days and the personal memoirs of other ExComm members cannot be taken seriously as historically accurate accounts of the ExComm meetings. This book, from the first historian to listen to and evaluate the White House tapes made during the crisis, does exactly that. “Stern is not alone in questioning the precision of the transcripts offered, but he has made the most painstaking attempt to clarify what was really said and done.” —Journal of American History
Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons
Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons write by Ward Wilson. This book was released on 2013. Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Expanded from an article that created a stir in foreign policy circles, this book shows why five central arguments promoting nuclear weapons are, in essence, myths.
The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory
The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory write by Sheldon Stern. This book was released on 2012-09-05. The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations. A half-century after the event it is surely time to demonstrate, once and for all, that RFK's Thirteen Days and the personal memoirs of other ExComm members cannot be taken seriously as historically accurate accounts of the ExComm meetings.
The Missile Next Door
The Missile Next Door - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Missile Next Door write by Gretchen Heefner. This book was released on 2012-09-10. The Missile Next Door available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1960s the Air Force buried 1,000 ICBMs in pastures across the Great Plains to keep U.S. nuclear strategy out of view. As rural civilians of all political stripes found themselves living in the Soviet crosshairs, a proud Plains individualism gave way to an economic dependence on the military-industrial complex that still persists today.
Assured Destruction
Assured Destruction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assured Destruction write by David Bath. This book was released on 2020-03-15. Assured Destruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force documents the rapid development of nuclear ballistic missiles in the United States and their equally swift demise after the Cuban Missile Crisis, revealing how these drastic changes negatively influenced both the Air Force and the missile community. David W. Bath contends that the struggle to create and control nuclear ballistic missiles threatened both the dominance of the United States during an intensifying Cold War and the strategic airpower mission of the newly created Air Force. The book details the strenuous efforts required to create and prepare a missile arsenal before the Cuban Missile Crisis, which occurred only five years after the first missile was declared operational. It uses the personal recollections of former missileers and the professional military education theses they wrote to highlight some of the concerns that have faced the missileers who operated and worked on these powerful weapons from 1957 to the present. The highlight of the book, however, is the personal stories of the missileers who served during the missile crisis, revealing the efforts that they went to in order to prepare these unique and untried weapons for what many thought might become the third world war.
