Castro's Bomb is an American
alternate history
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ebook written by
Robert Conroy. It was first published on
Kindle on September 21, 2011.
Plot
In 1963, a year after the
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (of 1962) ( es, Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, the Caribbean Crisis () in Russia, or the Missile Scare, was a 35-day (16 October – 20 November 1962) confrontation between the United S ...
, the leader of
Cuba
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,
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; ; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 200 ...
, and the
Cuban Army use weapons left behind by the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
to seize the
United States
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military base at
Guantanamo Bay and then plan missile strikes against America.
US President
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United Stat ...
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination i ...
tries desperately to retain his leadership and to keep the war from escalating into
World War III
World War III or the Third World War, often abbreviated as WWIII or WW3, are names given to a hypothetical World war, worldwide large-scale military conflict subsequent to World War I and World War II. The term has been in use ...
.
Reception
''Castro's Bomb'' was a finalist for the 2012
Sidewise Award
The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were established in 1995 to recognize the best alternate history stories and novels of the year.
Overview
The awards take their name from the 1934 short story "Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster, in wh ...
, Long Form.
[Sidewise Awards Nominees for 2011 Work]
by Mike Glyer, at File 770; published June 13, 2012; retrieved April 22, 2022 Blaine Pardoe
Blaine Lee Pardoe is a bestselling and award-winning American author and military historian, known primarily for writing the ''Battletech'' and '' MechWarrior: Dark Age'' series of science fiction books, business management books, military history ...
considered it to have "huge gaps".
[Interview: Blaine Pardoe]
by Mitro; at Alternate History Weekly Update; published March 18, 2015; retrieved April 22, 2022
References
2011 American novels
American alternate history novels
Novels by Robert Conroy
Cultural depictions of Fidel Castro
Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy
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