The Sum of All Fears

Loose Nukes, Timber, and the Superbowl

Tom Clancy’s nuclear terrorism novel, The Sum of All Fears, came out on August 14, 1991. This was six months after President George H W Bush declared a ceasefire in late February, putting an end to Operation Desert Storm, also known as Gulf War I. The book, like all Clancy books by this point, was a best seller and his first real post-cold war novel. He…