After the Second World War, the United States emerges as the central architect of the new global order. At its core stand elite think tanks such as the Council on Foreign Relations , backed by the power of American industry, the expanding Military-Industrial Complex , and entrenched legacy institutions—the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency —whose political logic increasingly shapes the fate of nations. Amid this dense web of power, the leadership of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy , colliding with the competing interests of global actors, blurs the very distinction between good and evil. Moral clarity gives way to strategic necessity. Within this fractured landscape, the question becomes unavoidable: Whose side should the Heavenly Team choose? As American and Soviet nuclear missiles face one another across Cuba , pushing Earth to the brink of annihilation, the Heavenly Team must decide how to intervene. Their actions unfold in the shadows, where a single choice can determine humanity's survival. Red Buttons is a political and scientific thriller that reconstructs the most decisive moments of the Cold War through hidden decisions, covert interventions, and the precise instant when the destiny of mankind hung in the balance.