And yet it happened. They had not yet had time to accumulate nuclear arsenals capable of destroying the planet several times over. And the generals consider nuclear weapons only a more powerful means to achieve their goals. This book is about the nuclear war that the Cuban Missile Crisis turned into. Americans, Germans, Russians - all nations were involved in this war. Although these are ordinary people: some are career military personnel, others were forced to put on military uniforms by inexorable circumstances, and others simply conscientiously go to simple, routine work. And when a chain of accidents leads to an atomic fire, events occur that were unimaginable in previous wars. So can anyone win?