467 Annie Jacobsen: What would the first minutes of a nuclear war look like? – The realignment module

Annie Jacobsen, journalist and author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Annie discuss what experts predict the first minutes after a nuclear launch and strike will be like, why the return of Cold War-style relations between great powers has brought the threat of nuclear conflict back to the forefront, he history of the U.S. military and executive branch nuclear policies and the need to ensure that adversary nations maintain lines of clarity and communication to avoid disastrous miscalculation.

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0h00 – Presentation
1:14 – Annie's book
5:06 p.m. – Decentralize Washington
8:26 a.m. – Paradox of nuclear weapons
12:45 p.m. – Modern nuclear conflict
4:55 p.m. – Different conceptions of nuclear weapons
9:33 p.m. – Tactical nuclear weapons
25:03 – History of nuclear weapons
30:26 – What should policymakers do?
35:37 – Nuclear incidents
40:59 – Annie's previous books
45:52 – UFOs

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