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Dark beyond darkness
the Cuban Missile Crisis as history, warning, and catalyst
by James G. Blight
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"Dark Beyond Darkness is the first book to take readers deeply inside the experience and calculations of leaders during the Cuban Missile Crisis and to connect that crisis to the nuclear risk today, whether from war between superpowers, climate catastrophe following a regional nuclear war or a nuclear conflict sparked by an accident."--Provided by publisher.
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Dark beyond darkness: the Cuban Missile Crisis as history, warning, and catalyst
2018, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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1538101998 9781538101995
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Table of 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?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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