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 this war would be a nuclear missile heading towards the United States.
Every generation, a journalist has delved into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans and the risks. These investigations are essential to our understanding of the world we actually live in – where a nuclear missile will spawn one back, and where the choreography of the end of the world requires massive split-second decisions made with information that is only as good than these. the intelligence we have.
In her new book Nuclear War: A Scenario, Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen explores this ticking clock scenario, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who built the weapons, were at aware of the response plans and were responsible for these decisions if they had to be made.
Join us as Jacobsen returns for a new Club program examining the few minutes after the launch of a nuclear missile.
Photo by Hilary Jones.
March 26, 2024
Speakers
Annie Jacobsen
Journalist; Author, Nuclear War: A Scenario; X @AnnieJacobsen
In conversation with Quentin Hardy
Freelance technical writer
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