TY - BOOK AU - Rosenbaum,Ron TI - How the end begins: the road to a nuclear World War III SN - 1416594213 (hbk.) AV - U 263 R813h 2011 U1 - 355.02/17 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Nuclear warfare KW - Guerra nuclear KW - Tercera Guerra Mundial KW - Disuasión (estrategia) KW - World War III KW - Nuclear weapons KW - History KW - Deterrence (Strategy) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-285) and index; "We came so close" -- Major Hering's forbidden questions -- The forbidden question at the QWEST Center -- The number -- Bruce Blair : the doomsday discovery and the real danger -- Col. Yarynich's "100 nuclear wars" and the apocalypse equation -- "The ashes are still warm" : the second holocaust, Israel, and the morality of nuclear retaliation -- Iran: the "enigmatic box" and the NIE -- Endgame N2 - An alarming, deeply reported analysis of how close--and how often--the world has come to nuclear annihilation, and why we are once again on the brink ER -