Generating fear

nless most life as we know it has been wiped off the face of the planet by the time this review comes out, I’d urge you to pick up this book – and, as its author warns in his stark preface, be terrified. Serhii Plokhy is one of those historians whose finger seems to be unerringly on the pulse of current events. Just a dramatic retelling of when the world came close to nuclear Armageddon during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Now in he takes a truly chilling look at nuclear weaponry’s twin – nuclear power.