My brief recommended reading list for a nuclear crisis, in order:
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes
- Hiroshima, by John Henessy
- One Minute to Midnight, by Michael Dobbs
- Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow
- Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War, by Susan Southard
My also-brief recommended reading list for North Korea, in no particular order:
- Nothing to Envy, by Barbara Demick
- Escape from Camp 14, by Blaine Harden
- The Aquariums of Pyongyang, by Kang Chol-hwan and Pierre Rigoulot