The End Of The World
February, 1978
August 10, 1984: A small group of Soviet leaders is sitting around a felted conference table in a mountain bunker 60 miles outside Moscow. They agree that the European war has been going well. One of them worries: "Too well." It was easier than their strategists had predicted. It started purely as a political ploy: a modest thrust at Berlin in response to the American invasion of Panama. But how do you disengage, now that the point is more than made? The military senses victory. The id...