
How the End Begins
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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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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Chapter 1: "We Came So Close"
- Chapter 2: Major Hering's Forbidden Question
- Chapter 3: The Forbidden Question at the Qwest Center
- Chapter 4: The Number
- Chapter 5: Bruce Blair: The Doomsday Discovery and the Real Danger
- Chapter 6: Colonel Yarynich's "100 Nuclear Wars," and the Apocalypse Equation
- Chapter 7: "The Ashes are Still Warm": The Second Holocaust, Israel, and the Morality of Nuclear Retaliation
- Chapter 8: Iran: The "Enigmatic Box" and the NIE
- Chapter 9: Endgame
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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