Thu, Apr 09
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Tod Robberson, Globemaster Down: Soviet Espionage and the Doomed American Attempt to Sneak Nukes into Europe
A co-presentation with Global Santa Fe, Tod will be in conversation with Jim Falk, Global Santa Fe Program Chair. Meticulously researched and brilliantly told, "Globemaster Down" tells the fascinating story of two global superpowers in a reckless race toward the brink of nuclear disaster.
Date, Time & Location
Apr 09, 2026, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom here.
Pre-order Globemaster Down ($29, hardcover, publishes March 31) online from CWB here or call the store to order (505) 9884226.
Just in time for the 75th anniversary comes the first book-length investigation into one of the great unsolved mysteries from the early days of the Cold War, when an American cargo plane allegedly carrying an atomic bomb over the Atlantic Ocean disappeared, along with the U.S. military and nuclear specialists on board.
Pulitzer Prize–winning war reporter Tod Robberson examines this shocking true story from the early days of the Cold War and the origins of the ongoing, icy relationship between the United States and Russia.
1951. The Cold War is heating up. With Soviet troops amassing across Eastern Europe and the arrests of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for spilling nuclear secrets, President Harry Truman assigned General Curtis LeMay the task…