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The Road to a Nuclear World War III
Simon & Schuster
March 2011
On Sale: March 1, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 1416594213
EAN: 9781416594215
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
The president loses control of fifty nukes for nearly an
hour. Russian nuclear bombers almost bump wingtips with
American fighter jets over the Pacific coast. North Korea
detonates nuclear weapons underground. Iran’s nuclear shroud
is penetrated by a computer worm. Al-Qaeda goes on the hunt
for Pakistan’s bomb, and Israelis debate the merit of a
preemptive nuclear strike. Treaties are signed, but
thousands of nuclear weapons are still on hair-trigger
alert.This is how the end begins.In this startling new book,
bestselling author Ron Rosenbaum gives us a wake-up call
about this new age of peril and delivers a provocative
analysis of how close—and how often—the world has come to
nuclear annihilation and why we are once again on the
brink.Rosenbaum tracks down key characters in our new
nuclear drama and probes deeply into their war game
strategies, fears, and moral agonies. He travels to Omaha’s
underground nuclear command center, goes deep into the
missile silo complexes beneath the Great Plains, and holds
in his hands a set of nuclear launch keys.Along the way,
Rosenbaum confronts the missile men as well as the general
at the very top of our nation’s nuclear command system with
tough questions about the terrifying assumptions underlying
it. He reveals disturbing flaws in our nuclear launch
control system, suggests remedies for them, shows how the
old Cold War system of bipolar deterrence has become
dangerously unstable, and examines the new movement for
nuclear abolition.Having explored the depths of Hitler’s
evil and the intense emotion of Shakespeare’s tragedies,
Rosenbaum now has produced a powerful, urgently needed work
that challenges us: Can we undream our nightmare?
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