How the end begins : the road to a nuclear World War III
Title:
How the end begins : the road to a nuclear World War III
Author:
Rosenbaum, Ron
ISBN:
9781416594215
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publication Information:
New York: Simon & Schuster 2011.
Physical Description:
304 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
"We came so close" -- Major Hering's forbidden questions -- The forbidden question at the QWEST Center -- The number -- Bruce Blair: the doomsday discovery and the real danger -- Col. Yarynich's "100 nuclear wars" and the apocalypse equation -- "The ashes are still warm": the second holocaust, Israel, and the morality of nuclear retaliation -- Iran: the "enigmatic box" and the NIE -- Endgame.
Abstract:
An alarming, deeply reported analysis of how close--and how often--the world has come to nuclear annihilation, and why we are once again on the brink.
