Time to Start
The Berlin Wall
Human Race
Out of the East
The Decision
PART 3: Eyeball to Eyeball
Grave Issues
Special Weapons
Milk Run
Bullfighter
Pretty Bad Fix
Your Move
The Cuban Missile Crisis
If Time Permits
Blink
Knot of War
Final Offer
First Shot
Moscow Time
Rematch
EPILOGUE: Choose Your Own Ending
Source Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Image Credits
Index
Also by Steve Sheinkin
About the Author
Copyright
Text copyright © 2021 by Steve Sheinkin
Published by Roaring Brook Press
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this book as follows:
Names: Sheinkin, Steve, author.
Title: Fallout: spies, superbombs, and the ultimate Cold War showdown / Steve Sheinkin.
Other titles: Spies, superbombs, and the ultimate Cold War showdown
Description: First edition. | New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2021. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. | Audience: Ages 10–14 |
Audience: Grades 7–9 | Summary: “As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States shows its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck and neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and win the space race. In their battle for dominance, spy planes fly above, armed submarines swim below, and undercover agents meet in the dead of night. The Cold War game grows more precarious as weapons are pointed toward each other, with fingers literally on the trigger. The decades-long showdown culminates in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world’s close call with the third—and final—world war”— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021019729 | ISBN 9781250149015 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Cold War—Juvenile literature. | United States—Foreign relations—Soviet Union—Juvenile literature. | Soviet Union—Foreign relations—United States—Juvenile literature. | Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962—Juvenile literature. | Espionage, American—Soviet Union—History—20th century—Juvenile literature. | Espionage, Soviet—United States—History—20th century—Juvenile literature.
Classification: LCC E841 .S54 2021 | DDC 972.9106/4—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021019729
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