15 Minutes

Packed with startling revelations, this inside look at the secret side of the Cold War exposes just how close America came to total annihilation. “With access to newly declassified documents, Keeney delivers a jolting year-by-year history of SAC’s transformation into a massive worldwide force primed to launch bombers within 15 minutes of the order.” — Publishers Weekly One of the most detailed pictures yet of the complex, ultrasecret, ultradeadly world of nuclear war, 15 Minutes shows how the bo