About the book: year / Alternative history. Sidebar to “The End of the World Encore” by Vladimir Ilyich Kontrovsky. The theme of the confrontation between two great powers in the Cuban Missile Crisis... Never before, and never after October 1962, has the world stood so close to a nuclear war. One might say, planet Earth walked a fine hair over the abyss of that horror, in comparison with which all previous wars look like harmless fights between boys in a sandbox... So, naval officer John Kennedy died on August 2, 1943, when his torpedo boat was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. In 1960, Barry Goldwater, nicknamed ". Crazy,” and the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into a global nuclear war…