BOOKS
Author Rosenbaum, Ron.

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

Imprint New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Edition 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 Holocaust Library Books  U263 .R67 2011    Library Use Only
Collation 304 pages ; 25 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
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Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-285) and index.
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.
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.
Note Gift of William Shulman.
Subject Nuclear warfare.
World War III.
Nuclear weapons -- History.
Deterrence (Strategy) -- History.
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