Glimpse what a nuclear war in 1962 and its aftermath would have looked like without radically departing from known historical facts.

This short history (approximately 20 pages) of the American-Soviet nuclear war of 1962 is based on authoritative sources (footnoted), many of which have only recently been de-classified. The book frighteningly demonstrates that it would have required only minor variations in events or the temperaments of the key players to have set the history of the entire world on a radically different trajectory.