Brink of Doom: Cold War Crisis Points

Between 1945 and 1991, the world came perilously close to nuclear war on multiple occasions. This meticulously researched account examines the critical moments when miscommunication, miscalculation, and human error brought superpowers to the edge of catastrophe-from the Berlin Blockade to the Cuban Missile Crisis, from the Able Archer exercises to the Korean Air Lines incident. Drawing on declas...