Near Misses: Nuclear Close Calls That Almost Changed History

History's greatest reliefs are often its narrowest escapes. This book recounts the tense, little known incidents when nuclear disaster nearly became reality-from malfunctioning radar systems and misread signals to rogue commanders and political brinkmanship. "e;Near Misses"e; pieces together declassified reports, eyewitness accounts, and archival evidence to reconstruct how fragile the balance of ...