A review by richardmtl
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs

5.0

Fascinating look at all the things that could have gone wrong during the crisis. Amazing how some generals were so gung-ho about going to war, though from their point of view, I guess the likely outcome of *not* going to war was that the USSR was going to shoot first. I'm kind of glad that I read [b:Back Channel|20342517|Back Channel|Stephen L. Carter|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1398906312s/20342517.jpg|28322755] before this one, as it gave me a bit of the foundations for what was going on, but I enjoyed this non-fiction description of those 2 weeks much more.