Nuclear war. The greatest single threat facing mankind. The arsenals of a man-made Armageddon await only a word--or the touch of a button. Compiled here for the first time are 13 stories of nuclear destruction from such science fiction masters as Joe Haldeman, David Drake, Ben Bova and others.
Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.
As a science fiction author, Benford is best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, beginning with In the Ocean of Night (1977). This series postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient mechanical life.