| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-285) and index. |
| LCCN | 2010022474 |
| ISBN | 1416594213 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781416594215 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1439190070 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9781439190074 (ebook) |
