Defusing Armageddon: Inside NEST, America’s Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad

CONTENTS

List of Letters, Maps, Figures, and Tables

1. “Bye-Bye Boston”

2. Nuclear Extortion

3. Morning Light

4. A Low-Profile Decade

5. Tarnished Gold

6. People, Paper, and Machines

8. Danger and Response

9. A New Urgency

10. NEST after 9/11

11. Foreign Travel

12. Challenges Ahead

Appendix: U.S. Nuclear Extortion Threats Event List: 1970–1993

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Acknowledgments