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Nuclear War
A Scenario
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4.5 • 455 Ratings
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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
Jeez
This book is both amazing and yet depressing when the events are presented to you.
Gripping and horrifying, but also an amazing read
I started this book before work one morning, and ended up calling in sick so I could finish it in one session. I just couldn’t put it down, or even stop thinking about the material when I forced myself to take a break and walk around the block a few times. As an engineering scientist, a book hasn’t grabbed me with this level of “and what happens next?” attention since Andy Weir’s ‘The Martian’, with an obvious and critical difference: this event could literally happen to all of us tomorrow. We forget that the waves of nuclear disarmament in the 90’s and 00’s only brought things from the level of potentially destroying humankind 20 times over down to a mere once-over. We still sit on a razor’s edge.
A dive into the human condition
This book was as eye opening as it was jaw dropping. I was left gazing into space considering the possibilities of our demise. It’s a fun ride and that felt well researched