"Minutes to Midnight" The Politics and Geopolitics of Nuclear War.

By Wayne J. Gombar

What happens when the countdown never stops?
Since the first atomic flash illuminated the New Mexico desert, humanity has lived in the long shadow of its own ingenuity. Minutes to Midnight is a sobering, panoramic journey through the politics, science, and strategy that have brought the world repeatedly to the brink of annihilation and sometimes pulled it back just in time.
In thirty riveting chapters, Wayne J. Gombar explores the history and future of nuclear weapons: from Hiroshima to hypersonic, from Cold War doctrine to 21st-century cyber threats. Drawing on military archives, international treaties, and firsthand accounts, this book examines the fragile dance of deterrence, the failures of arms control, and the human errors that nearly ignited global catastrophe.
As the Doomsday Clock ticks closer to midnight than ever before, Minutes to Midnight poses urgent questions: Can deterrence hold in a multipolar, AI-driven world?What happens when rogue states-or rogue actors-disrupt the balance?Are we more vulnerable now than at any time in history?Meticulously researched and powerfully written, this book is a call to awareness, a chronicle of close calls, and a demand for change. Because survival is not automatic, it is a choice. And the hands of the clock are still moving.
The future is unwritten. But time is running out.

Author Bio
Wayne J. Gombar is a writer, researcher, and national security professional with a deep background in defense policy, homeland security, and military history. His work blends analytical rigor with storytelling to illuminate complex issues of war, power, and survival. A passionate advocate for informed public discourse, Gombar writes with urgency and insight about the global challenges that define our era.
Minutes to Midnight is the culmination of years of study into the nuclear enterprise, its history, its myths, and its dangerously unfinished future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FKMTVZHF
• ISBN13: 9798294840532
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"