Awaiting Armageddon
Subtitle: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780807828281
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Nuclear weapons; Social history; War & defence operations; c 1960 to c 1970; Military - Nuclear Warfare; History; History - U.S.; United States; History: American; USA; Modern - 20th Century/Nuclear Age; United States - 20th Century/60s; General; United States - 20th Century; Civil defense; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Public opinion; Social aspects
First sentence: By the 1960s, most Americans had a vision of nuclear war: towering mushroom clouds, sudden devastation, an eerily empty landscape, and death, perhaps even mankind's end.