Nuclear FollyThe definitive history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the bestselling author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy. For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962, the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine and fallout; nuclear war between the two most powerful nations on Earth. In Nuclear Folly, award winning historian Serhii Plokhy tells the riveting