One minute to midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war (75 page)
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Authors: Michael Dobbs
"a dove from the start": Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times,
529.
"a thought of breathtaking ingenuity": Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days,
828.
"the enormous tension that gripped us": Dobrynin, 83.
Most books on the missile crisis: An exception is
The Limits of Safety
(1993), by Scott Sagan, a study about accidents involving nuclear weapons.
"100 per cent successful": History of 4080th Strategic Wing, October 1962, FOIA.
"an inner sense of confidence": Alsop and Bartlett, "In Time of Crisis."
a policy of "progressive squeeze-and-talk": Kaplan, 334.
"deeply influenced": Clark M. Clifford,
Counsel to the President
(New York: Random House, 1991), 411.
"Very gung-ho fellows": Michael Charlton and Anthony Moncrieff,
Many Reasons Why: The American Involvement in Vietnam
(New York: Hill & Wang, 1978), 82, cited in Eliot A. Cohen, "Why We Should Stop Studying the Cuban Missile Crisis,"
The National Interest
(Winter 1985-86).
"You got away with it": Reeves, 424.
"bright and energetic": Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times,
548.
"incompatible with Soviet practice": NIE 85-3-62, September 19, 1962; for postmortem, see February 4, 1963, memo from President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board in McAuliffe, 362-71.
"We all inhabit": JFK Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963.
"plain dumb luck": Reeves, 425; see also "Acheson Says Luck Saved JFK on Cuba,"
WP,
January 19, 1969.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael Dobbs was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and educated at the University of York, with fellowships at Princeton and Harvard. He is a reporter for
The Washington Post,
where he spent much of his career as a foreign correspondent covering the collapse of communism. His
Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
was a runner-up for the 1997 PEN award for nonfiction. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Dobbs, Michael, 1950-
One minute to midnight : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war / by Michael Dobbs.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
eISBN: 978-0-307-26936-2
1. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. 2. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962--Sources. I. Title.
E841.D573 2008
972.9106'4--dc22 2007052250
v2.0
Table of Contents
CHAPTER FOUR : “Eyeball to Eyeball”
CHAPTER FIVE : “Till Hell Freezes Over”
CHAPTER NINE : Hunt for the Grozny
CHAPTER ELEVEN : “Some Sonofabitch”
CHAPTER TWELVE : “Run Like Hell”
CHAPTER THIRTEEN : Cat and Mouse
CHAPTER FOURTEEN : “Crate and Return”