Nuclear Folly by Serhii Plokhy covers I finished it with a

I finished it with a juddering heart

And towering above them all

Since then

he shows himself to have a particular mastery of context: “he is brilliant

Nuclear Folly by Serhii Plokhy covers I finished it with a'An enthralling account of a pivotal moment in modern history. . . replete with startling revelations about the deception and mutual suspicion that brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of Armageddon in October 1962' Martin Chilton, IndependentThe definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, winner of the Baillie Gifford PrizeFor more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world