Michael Dobbs

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About The Author

Michael Dobbs was born and educated in Britain. He was a longtime reporter for The Washington Post, covering the collapse of Communism as a foreign correspondent. He has taught at leading American universities, including Princeton, the University of Michigan, and Georgetown. He is the author of the bestselling One Minute to Midnight on the Cuban missile crisis, which was part of an acclaimed Cold War trilogy, as well as The Six Minute War. He lives outside Washington, DC.

Books by Michael Dobbs

The Six Minute War

Reagan, Russia, and the Race to Automate Armageddon

By Michael Dobbs
The New York Times bestselling author of One Minute to Midnight Michael Dobbs reconstructs the thrilling inside story of the climactic nuclear crisis of the Cold War, revealing the tension between “the human in the loop” and the algorithms that could trigger World War III.
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