Triggerman: The Man With His Finger On The End

From eight in the morning until four in the afternoon, General Alastair French holds the most dangerous job on Earth. Sealed in a hidden command center, surrounded by clocks, telephones, and a single red button, he carries the authority to unleash total nuclear retaliation. The system depends on him being calm, detached, and certain. But certainty disappears the moment a blazing object tears across the sky and obliterates Washington in a flash that leaves nothing standing.

The phones erupt. ...