Nuclear Folly

Source: The Economist

On October 27th 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, it was only the purest luck that saved the world from nuclear catastrophe. Five days earlier President John Kennedy had announced a naval blockade of the island to force his opposite number in the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev, to withdraw the medium-range nuclear missiles he had sent to Cuba in the summer of that year. us Navy anti-submarine warfare patrols were hunting down Soviet nuclear-armed subs that posed a threat to the blockade.

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Source: Financial Times

There have been scores of books, some of them very good, about the Cuban missile crisis and several documentary movies of varying quality. But Nuclear Folly is arguably the most authoritative and cleverly written work on the subject yet produced.

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