On the Brink

On the Brink
Author: Van Jackson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2019
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1108473482

Former Pentagon insider Van Jackson explores how Trump and Kim reached - and avoided - the precipice of nuclear war.

The Brink

The Brink
Author: Marc Ambinder
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476760381

“An informative and often enthralling book…in the appealing style of Tom Clancy” (Kirkus Reviews) about the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union. What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) into the field, placing them on a three-minute alert Marc Ambinder explains the anxious period between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1984, with the “Able Archer ’83” war game at the center of the tension. With astonishing and clarifying new details, he recounts the scary series of the close encounters that tested the limits of ordinary humans and powerful leaders alike. Ambinder provides a comprehensive and chilling account of the nuclear command and control process, from intelligence warnings to the composition of the nuclear codes themselves. And he affords glimpses into the secret world of a preemptive electronic attack that scared the Soviet Union into action. Ambinder’s account reads like a thriller, recounting the spy-versus-spy games that kept both countries—and the world—in check. From geopolitics in Moscow and Washington, to sweat-caked soldiers fighting in the trenches of the Cold War, to high-stakes war games across NATO and the Warsaw Pact, “Ambinder’s account of a serious threat of global annihilation…is spellbinding…a masterpiece of recent history” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The Brink serves as the definitive intelligence, nuclear, and national security history of one of the most precarious times in recent memory and “shows the consequences of nuclear buildups, sometimes-careless language, and nervous leaders. Now, more than ever, those consequences matter” (USA TODAY).

On the Brink

On the Brink
Author: Paul Randolph
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2013-04-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1475977883

From the outside looking in, it appears as if architect Paul Randolph and his wife, Brenda, have it all. Theyve lived a comfortable life in the same house on Songbird Lane in New Orleans East with their two children, nine-year-old Jason and seven-year-old Janie, for the last ten years. But Pauls life is a lie. None of his dreams of a vine-covered cottage with a little picket fence are anywhere near reality. He feels trapped in a loveless marriage and is emotionally unable to have an affair. Paul is not sexually attracted to women, and he is frightened to make a sexual advance on a man for fear the man will react unfavorably, or even violently. On the Brink follows Pauls journey as he addresses the emotional and psychological aspects of his sexuality. He is torn between his love for his children, his societal position, and a desperate desire for integrity. Weary of suppressing his true self, Paul deliberates his fate, his only desire being wholeness.

Cuba on the Brink

Cuba on the Brink
Author: James G. Blight
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780742522695

With the disintegration of the Soviet Union and international socialism, Cuba now finds itself isolated as the United States continues to press for its economic and political collapse. How Fidel Castro sees Cuba's plight and what he hopes to do about it emerge from this account of a unique conference held in Havana in 1992. The meeting brought together participants in the Cuban missile crisis from the former Soviet Union, Cuba, and the U.S. to discuss its causes and course. This account is now available for the first time in paperback, on the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This first meeting between Castro, his ex-Soviet allies, and his American foes produced startling revelations about his dealings with the Soviets, chilling details of the number and kind of Soviet nuclear arms that Cuba possessed in 1962, and an illuminating account of Castro's view of the American threat--then and now. The dramatic exchanges between Castro and such conference participants as Anatoly I. Gribkov, former head of the Warsaw Pact; former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Special Assistant to John Kennedy, reveal misperceptions on all sides that led us to the brink of nuclear war. An extraordinary examination of an international crisis, Cuba on the Brink illustrates the ongoing "Cuba problem," and will help guide our actions toward other countries deemed hostile to our national interest.

Pakistan on the Brink

Pakistan on the Brink
Author: Ahmed Rashid
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0143122835

An urgent, on-the-ground report from Pakistan—from the bestselling author of Descent Into Chaos and Taliban Ahmed Rashid, one of the world's leading experts on the social and political situations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, offers a highly anticipated update on the possibilities—and hazards—facing the United States after the death of Osama bin Laden and as Operation Enduring Freedom winds down. With the characteristic professionalism that has made him the preeminent independent journalist in Pakistan for three decades, Rashid asks the important questions and delivers informed insights about the future of U.S. relations with the troubled region. His most urgent book to date, Pakistan on the Brink is the third volume in a comprehensive series that is a call to action to our nation's leaders and an exposition of this conflict's impact on the security of the world.

The Brink

The Brink
Author: Alien Stevens
Publisher: PageFree Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2002-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781930252509

The Curse of Brink's-Mat

The Curse of Brink's-Mat
Author: Wensley Clarkson
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1849166501

'It wasn't only Britain's biggest heist, it became the bloodiest' Mail on Sunday The inside story of the 20th century's most lucrative armed robbery. On 26 November 1983 six armed robbers escaped with £28 million worth of gold bullion from a Brink's-Mat warehouse at London's Heathrow Airport. The Curse of Brink's-Mat reveals the pulse-racing full story of the crime itself before moving to its chilling aftermath, which still reverberates to this day. The heist made the careers of many of the underworld's biggest names, and changed the face of British crime forever but in the years that followed the robbery, many of those involved, innocent and guilty alike have been sent to an early grave. Two decades on, the death toll is still rising. Nobody knows more about that extraordinary morning's events than Wensley Clarkson, whose early career was spent as a reporter for Britain's biggest-selling newspapers, providing him with a wealth of insider contacts. From small-time crime in south-east London, to 'the heist of the century' and its bloody consequences, Wensley Clarkson's The Curse of Brink's-Mat is an epic tale of villainy, gold and revenge.

Visions at the Brink

Visions at the Brink
Author: Patrick Vincent McGreevy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 704
Release: 1984
Genre: Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
ISBN:

Beyond the Brink

Beyond the Brink
Author: Christopher Orland
Publisher: Booktango
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2014-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468945645

'A thought-provoking high-tech thriller by a very talented author' (The Wishing Shelf Awards) By the first decade of the 22nd Century the dream of intercontinental human teleportation has become a reality, thanks to the scientists of a powerful conglomerate known as GTP, the Global Teleportation Partnership. Convincing the public to accept teleportation, however, is an uphill battle for GTP following a series of setbacks. Enter Guy Rennix of the small but successful UK technology firm Tempus Biotronics, which has gambled its future on teleportation. Guy is a salesman with an excellent track record; and the Raven brothers, who own Tempus, are keen to enlist his help to protect their investment. They decide to offer Guy a business trip from London to New York, travelling via teleportation, but the journey takes him further than anyone could predict...