Dark Beyond Darkness: The Cuban Missile Crisis as History, Warning, and Catalyst

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In Dark Beyond Darkness, James Blight and janet Lang, a number of the world’s foremost authorities at the Cuban missile crisis, synthesize the findings from their thirty-year project at the most dangerous moment in recorded history. Authoritative, accessible, and written with their usual flair and wit, DBD is the primary book to take readers deeply throughout the experience and calculations of Fidel Castro, who used to be willing to martyr Cuba if his new Russian ally would nuke the U.S. and destroy it. Blight and Lang have established that in October 1962, the world used to be on the point of Armageddon, and that we escaped by luck. Their history is scary but unimpeachably accurate: we just barely escaped the cold and the dark in October 1962.

Their history also comes with a warning: we are currently at risk not only of Armageddon-fast, in a war between superpowers, but Armageddon-in-Slow-Motion (the end result a climate catastrophe following a regional nuclear war), and from Armageddon, Oops! (a conflict sparked by an coincidence, which is misinterpreted, and leads to nuclear war). Drawing at the insights of poets, musicians and novelists, in addition to climate scientists and agronomists, they show the terrible risk we run by refusing to abolish nuclear weapons.

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