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By Günter Bischof,Stefan Karner,Barbara Stelzl-Marx,Richard D. Williamson,Anne Deighton,Georges-Henri Soutou,Vladimir Pechatnov,Ol'ga Pavlenko,Michail Prozumenshchikov,Sir Lawrence Freedman,Timothy Naftali,Ingrid Bauer,Jennifer Lynn Walton,Peter Ruggenthaler

At the start of June 1961, the tensions of the chilly warfare have been alleged to impede as either side sought a solution. the 2 most vital males on the planet, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, met for a summit in Vienna. but the excessive hopes have been disenchanted. inside of months the chilly conflict had develop into extremely popular: Khrushchev outfitted the Berlin Wall and a yr later he despatched missiles to Cuba to threaten the us at once.

Despite the truth that the Vienna Summit yielded slightly any tangible effects, it did result in a few vitally important advancements. The superpowers got here to work out for the 1st time that there has been just one solution to break out from the atomic hell in their respective arsenals: discussion. The "peace via worry" and the "hotline" among Washington and Moscow avoided an atomic disagreement. Austria effectively tested its new function as impartial nation and host while Vienna turned a gathering position within the chilly struggle. In The Vienna Summit and Its value in overseas History overseas specialists use new Russian and Western resources to investigate what fairly occurred in this serious time and why the events had a detailed shave with catastrophe.

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