Nerve Center: Inside the White House Situation Room

Created in the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the White House Situation Room is the president’s intelligence and alert center, providing vital communication and crisis management capabilities. The public’s knowledge of it comes almost entirely from Hollywood, which has failed to capture its real drama. Bohn gives an insider’s account, based on his own experiences and interviews with numerous current and former officials, telling the colorful forty-year history of arguably the most important facility in the world.