How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III

Dwight GarnerThis book is a wide-angle and quite dire meditation on our nuclear present; Mr. Rosenbaum is convincingly fearful about where humanity stands…[How the End Begins] is bracing and never dull.
—The New York Times




Richard Rhodes…How the End Begins raises fundamental questions more acutely than dozens of other recent books on the nuclear problem. There is much to learn from it.
—The New York Times Book Review


From the Publisher"The virtues of How the End Begins are numerous and impressive . . . this is a deep meditation on the role, meaning, and possible consequences of nuclear weapons in our time."
—Michael Anton, The Weekly Standard
"Is there a scenario in which nuclear retaliation would be moral? Rosenbaum's answer is a definitive no.