Nuclear Folly

• The Cuban Missile Crisis - a moment when the world stood on the brink
• Drawing on newly declassified documents, Plokhy reveals just how close we came to nuclear war
• A gripping account of miscommunication, ego, and terrifying near-misses
• History retold as a high-stakes thriller - and a warning that still resonates today

For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine and fallout; nuclear war between the two most-powerful nations on Earth.
In Nuclear Folly, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy tells the riveting story of those weeks, tracing the tortuous decision-making and calculated brinkmanship of John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and of their advisors and commanders on the ground.