Apropos of the story:

Remember the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists clock?
Well, today it's holding at

[link|http://www.bullatomsci.org/|10 minutes before Noon..]

Haven't looked in a long time; thought it was reset to -15 minutes after USSR wasn't (?)
IIRC it made -2 minutes or closer, in October 1962.
I look for another move, shortly after the Next attack in US.