'A book with a ferocious pace and more black humour than one could imagine'– Evening Standard
**As heard on BBC Radio 4 The World Tonight**
America lost 1.4 million citizens in the North Korean attacks of 2020.
A bold warning of how easily the nightmare could occur
A book with a ferocious pace and more black humour than one could imagine
Chillingly plausible
A Dr Strangelove for our time
A book with ferocious pace and more black humour than one could imagine
The plot is so absurd and implausible—a nuclear war prompted by a presidential tweet—that it feels devastatingly true. The 2020 COMMISSION REPORT is a brilliantly conceived page-turner. Let’s hope it isn’t prophetic
A Dr Strangelove for our time
Chillingly plausible
Couldn’t put this book down.... If fear of nuclear war is going to keep you up at night, at least it can be a page-turner
Jeffrey Lewis PhD is a scholar at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and a research affiliate at the Stanford University Center for Security and International Cooperation. He previously worked at the US Department of Defense, and was director of both the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation and the Managing the Atom Project at the Harvard Kennedy School. A columnist for
Foreign Policy, he is the publisher of ArmsControlWonk.com, the leading blog on disarmament, arms control, and nonproliferation. He has written for the
New York Times,
Atlantic, Daily Beast and the
Washington Post.