A Chinese ship steams through the southern Indian Ocean. (Greg Wood / Reuters) One of us first fought World War III from the backseat of a station wagon headed toward Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. For the other, it was at an island cabin on the Puget Sound waters of Washington state. We wouldn’t meet for another couple decades, but like millions of other readers that summer of 1986, we were captivated by Tom Clancy’s book Red Storm Rising. We both recall being so enthralled by his exploration of what would happen if the Cold War ever turned hot that we …read more
Source: The Atlantic
