Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen has explored this delay scenario, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who built the weapons, were privy to the response plans, and are responsible for them. decisions if they had to be made.
Shermer and Jacobsen discuss: surviving a nuclear explosion • what happens when a nuclear bomb explodes • the consequences of a nuclear exchange • getting to nuclear zero • North Korea, China/Taiwan • increasing the budgets for more weapons • types and quantities of nuclear weapons • why humans engage in aggression, violence, and war
Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and New York Times bestselling author. His new book is Nuclear War: A Scenario. His other books include: Area 51, Operation Paperclip and The Pentagon's Brain.
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