Review - Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown - 4 stars

 The book Fallout by  Steve Sheinkin, brings back lots of personal memories of the time when we were involved with the Soviet Union in the Cold War.  The threats of nuclear annihilation were real, probably on both sides but the M.A.D. (mutually assured destruction) as well as some lucky breaks for human kind prevented us from being eliminated as a species.

The book is obviously focused on a younger reader who did not live through these turbulent times.  For this
purpose, it seems to have met its goal of being a warning to this current generation for whom the threats of Cuban Missile Crisis don't seem real and maybe are covered in a paragraph, if that, in current history texts.

The book reads sort of like a novel but carries the ominous message that there are still forces at work in the world that all people need to on constant watch for their potential for evil. It is well written and covers a time period when there were, as stated in the subtitle "Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown."