Nuclear War
A Scenario
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Publisher Description
The INSTANT New York Times bestseller
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“In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if our nuclear guardians fail…Terrifying.”—Wall Street Journal
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.
Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have.
Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking-clock scenario, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, have been privy to the response plans, and have been responsible for those decisions should they have needed to be made. Nuclear War: A Scenario examines the handful of minutes after a nuclear missile launch. It is essential reading, and unlike any other book in its depth and urgency.
Customer Reviews
Nightmare Fuel
As a 50 year old man I clearly remember being a boy in the 1980’s in the rural Midwest of the USA.
My fears then weren’t of vampires or werewolves my fear at the age of 12 was at any moment we were doomed to die from the effects of a nuclear war. Time passed, the world changed in ways that I couldn’t have imagined or comprehended. I grew up and I let the fears of the past slide away.
Now what Annie Jacobson writes is in both ways absolutely terrifying and incredibly educational and enlightened.
As a boy and even into my college years I still calculated how close I was to a target and would I be vaporized or die an extremely horrid death. My Generation failed to keep this top of mind. My hope is a young future policy maker or physicist reads this book and finds a way to end the 80 years of terror that has quietly hung like a sword over our planet. As for Ms. Jacobsen, you’ve written pure nightmare fuel. Thank you.
Jesus Christ
We’re doomed.
Scariest book I ever read
For real