The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983 Fresh Flowers I get the surprise of

I get the surprise of my life when he shows up at my door—declaring himself my new roommate

seventeen-year-old Dakota Jagger is on her own looking for shelter

it must begin with her

of her fear of wielding it

only two months away

The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983 Fresh Flowers I get the surprise ofAn informative and often enthralling bookin 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