Originally Posted by
GogglesPisano
I'm just about to finish "Command and Control." It's truly terrifying and eye-opening how close we came to a nuke going off by accident, or an accidental nuclear exchange. We lost a lot more B52's over the decades than I'd thought.
Also, The "Gulag Archipelago" should be required reading in every high school.
If "Command and Control" interests you, perhaps a work of fiction might also:
"Nuclear War: A Scenario"
by Annie Jacobsen