The book The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel describes such a scenario.
Chilling.
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Jeffrey-Lewis/dp/1328573915/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light_(novel)
And, of course, for cases of a war starting because of a false belief that they were about to be attacked there is the real life case of Able Archer 83:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
The book The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel describes such a scenario.
Chilling.
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Jeffrey-Lewis/dp/1328573915/