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Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
Steve Sheinkin
Ages: 12+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Roaring Brook/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-1-250-14901-5
Keywords: Cold War; US Foreign Relations; Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962; Espionage, Soviet Union
A dramatic recounting of the tension-fraught years of the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II, ending in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Archival photos. Extensive back matter includes source notes.