Michael Dobbs: "One Minute to Midnight" (Knopf)

Michael Dobbs: "One Minute to Midnight" (Knopf)

A day-by-day, minute-by-minute account of the Cuban missile crisis based in part on newly available documents that reveal just how close the world came to thermonuclear war.

A day-by-day, minute-by-minute account of the Cuban missile crisis based in part on newly available documents that reveal just how close the world came to thermonuclear war.

Guests

Michael Dobbs

is a reporter and writes the 'Fact Checker' column for The Washington Post. He is also the author of "Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire" and "Saboteurs."

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