Z for Zachariah intro notes Also.pdf
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Z <strong>for</strong> <strong>Zachariah</strong><br />
by Robert O'Brien<br />
A Novel Study:<br />
1. What do you know about America in the 1955 1965 period?<br />
2. Can you talk about the Cuban Missile Crisis?<br />
3. What do you know about nuclear missiles? Their range and<br />
their damages?<br />
# I. America and USSR involved in<br />
small wars with puppet states / nations<br />
Called "The Cold War"<br />
#2. Russians wanted to move nuclear<br />
missiles onto Cuban soil. The Americans<br />
already had their missiles in Turkey.<br />
→ No ICBMs yet, so range mattered.<br />
NB → MAD Mutually Assured Destruction.<br />
Z <strong>for</strong> <strong>Zachariah</strong> assumes that the missiles<br />
made it to Cuban soil; that the world went to<br />
war.<br />
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