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Averting ‘The Final Failure’: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)

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The Cuban missile crisis was once the most dangerous disagreement of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in human history. Sheldon M. Stern, longtime historian at the John F. Kennedy Library, here presents a comprehensive narrative account of the name of the game ExComm meetings, making the inside story of the missile crisis completely understandable to general readers for the first time. The creator’s narrative version of these discussions is entirely new; it provides readers with a running observation at the issues and options discussed and enables them, as never before, to follow specific themes and the role of individual participants. The narrative highlights key moments of stress, doubt, decision, and resolution―and even humor―and makes the meetings comprehensible both to readers who lived through the crisis and to those too young to understand that the Cold War. Stern demonstrates that JFK, a seasoned Cold Warrior who bore one of the responsibility for precipitating the crisis, consistently steered policy makers away from an apocalyptic nuclear conflict, which he known as, with stark eloquence, “the final failure.”

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