How the end begins : the road to a nuclear World War III / Ron Rosenbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenbaum, Ron.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear warfare.

World War III.

Nuclear weapons--History.

Nuclear weapons.

History.

Deterrence (Strategy)--History.

Deterrence (Strategy).

Physical Description:

304 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-285) and index.

ISBN:

9781416594215

1416594213

OCLC:

313658819