Test Ban Treaty

June 1962

De: James Philip

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962.

TEST BAN TREATY is the ninth of thirteen books in this series which will be released at monthly intervals between 27th October 2023 and 27th October 2024.

It is June 1962. A train of events which has been slowly, menacingly coalescing since October 1961 in the confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin is beginning to play out.

OPERATION ANADYR is moving from a reckless idea in one man’s head – Nikita Khrushchev – to a plan wholeheartedly embraced by the entire Soviet war machine.

One reckless idea that is inexorably starting to tear lives to pieces and from its outset, is guaranteed to provide the casus belli of a possible nuclear war.

Historians are often astonished by the thought processes – or the lack of the same – of ‘great men’. The capacity of leaders to believe their own rhetoric in the face of all the evidence to the contrary is legendary. What we learn is that bad things do not always happen because bad people will them; sometimes good, stupid, and naïve men just misread the runes…

Summer heralds a quickening of the path to war and the endgame is much closer than anybody can imagine.

The ticking is getting louder as the clock has reaches four minutes to midnight.