How the end begins
Subtitle: the road to a nuclear World War III
By: Ron Rosenbaum
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781416594215; 9781439190074
Subjects: Nuclear weapons; Nuclear warfare; World War III; Deterrence (Strategy); History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: "We came so close"; title: Major Hering's forbidden questions; title: The forbidden question at the QWEST Center; title: The number; title: Bruce Blair : the doomsday discovery and the real danger; title: Col. Yarynich's "100 nuclear wars" and the apocalypse equation; title: "The ashes are still warm" : the second holocaust, Israel, and the morality of nuclear retaliation; title: Iran: the "enigmatic box" and the NIE; title: Endgame.