Huchthausen, Peter A.

Chronicles the history of the Soviet Union's desperate race to keep up with American submarine technology during the Cold War, focusing on the Soviet submarine K-19.

The author, a junior ensign on a U.S. Navy destroyer during the Cuban missile crisis, draws upon his personal experience and interviews with U.S. and Soviet officers and sailors to show how close the superpowers actually came to nuclear war in October of 1962.