This gripping excerpt from Dobbs' new book One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, reads like a thriller. During the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, U-2 pilot Charles Maultsby began a routine flight in Alaska but accidentally veered off-course and entered Soviet airspace. Dobbs' excerpt is brief, but it clearly captures the tensions surrounding not just American and Russian leaders, but also Maultsby and his commanders as they raced to avoid an escalation of military powers. Well-written, humanizing, and likely to interest the reader in...