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Loading... One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of…Just finished Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed; and speaking of spy planes, recently read One Minute to Midnight : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, which includes a good account of BOB81 in Military History : May 2009 Reading (May 1, 2009, 7:57pm) Just getting into One Minute to Midnight : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, and I've run across something troubling in chapter two: while the Soviets are offloading nukes at La Isabela, they are supposedly very nervous that one of them might be dropped, setting off the ... Just started One Minute to Midnight, about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Promising so far, so.....
Mike ... five books from Amazon: The Needle in the Blood by Sarah Bower, The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt, One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs, Understanding Digital Libraries by Michael Lesk, and Indexing from A to Z by Hans Wellisch.
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I am going to take a break and read The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Then I might take tasidog's suggestion of One Minute to Midnight. I was a young'un during that time, but I remember my friends all had bomb shelters in their basements. in addition to my classics (free of course), I just started One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs. It is about the Cuban missile crisis. I will date myself here, but I was a young adult then and I remember too well. This is a very well written book with meticulous research - gripping and ... 44. One Minute to Midnight... by Michael Dobbs
Although this is pure history involving the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, it read like a thriller. Thanks to just "plain dumb luck", a nuclear holocaust was averted. A lot went wrong, but fortunately none of the many nuclear warheads went off. Show ...
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