Prologue: Armageddon in retrospect: on the road with Papa & the Boy
Shit (almost) happened in October 1962: the struggle to avoid Armageddon involves the struggle of memory against forgetting
The bullshit: bad guys threaten; good guys stand firm; good guys win; bad guys lose; the little guy doesn't matter; JFK's moxie prevails
The truth: big guys ignore little guy; feeling doomed, little guy throws caution to the wind, starts shooting, and asks big friend to nuke the U.S.; Armageddon nearly occurs
Habitable history: how Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall became the template for a "WABAC" machine for the Cuban Missile Crisis
Be Robert McNamara: bringing the abolition message home, with (and without) "maximum Bob"
Be Fidel Castro: a leader at the hinge of the world
Armageddon in slow motion: more bullshit and truth about avoiding Armageddon in the 21st century
Armageddon oops! Nuclear war via mechanical and/or human screw-up
On the road again via climate catastrophe: from a 19th century volcanic eruption to a 21st century nuclear winter
The darkness defined and defied (via the lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis)
Be anybody WABAC: empathy, not sympathy is the key
Part 3. Darkness visible: findings, takeaways and imperatives of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Black Saturday manifesto: abolishing nuclear weapons one anniversary per year, for as long as it takes
Epilogue: Show us your darkness: Warning given! Warning received?
