Dark beyond darkness : the Cuban Missile Crisis as history, warning, and catalyst /: the Cuban Missile Crisis as history, warning, and catalyst. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Cuban Missile Crisis as history, warning, and catalyst
• Further Information: Note: James G. Blight and Janet M. Lang ; foreword by Matthew Heys.
• Authors: Blight, James G; Lang, Janet M, 1948-
• Contents: Prologue: Armageddon in retrospect: on the road with Papa & the Boy -- Part 1. Dark -- Shit (almost) happened in October 1962: the struggle to avoid Armageddon involves the struggle of memory against forgetting -- The bullshit: bad guys threaten; good guys stand firm; good guys win; bad guys lose; the little guy doesn't matter; JFK's moxie prevails -- The truth: big guys ignore little guy; feeling doomed, little guy throws caution to the wind, starts shooting, and asks big friend to nuke the U.S.; Armageddon nearly occurs -- Part 2. Darker -- Habitable history: how Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall became the template for a "WABAC" machine for the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Be Robert McNamara: bringing the abolition message home, with (and without) "maximum Bob" -- Be Fidel Castro: a leader at the hinge of the world -- Darkest -- Armageddon in slow motion: more bullshit and truth about avoiding Armageddon in the 21st century -- Armageddon oops! Nuclear war via mechanical and/or human screw-up -- On the road again via climate catastrophe: from a 19th century volcanic eruption to a 21st century nuclear winter -- The darkness defined and defied (via the lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis) -- Be anybody WABAC: empathy, not sympathy is the key -- Part 3. Darkness visible: findings, takeaways and imperatives of the Cuban Missile Crisis -- The Black Saturday manifesto: abolishing nuclear weapons one anniversary per year, for as long as it takes -- Epilogue: Show us your darkness: Warning given! Warning received?
• Publisher Details: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 972.9106/4; History: United States / 20th Century; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Nuclear disarmament; Nuclear warfare -- Prevention; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Influence; Nuclear crisis control -- Case studies; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Nuclear crisis control; Nuclear disarmament; Nuclear warfare -- Prevention; HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico; History: Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba; Political Science: History & Theory; Case studies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781538102008; 1538102005
• Related ISBNs: 9781538101995
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 18, 2018).
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