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Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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The INSTANT New York Times bestseller
Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
“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.
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“Gripping . . . essential if you want to understand the complex and disturbing details that go into a civilization-destroying decision to drop the Bomb on an enemy. . . . Jacobsen has done her homework. She has spent more than a decade interviewing dozens of experts while mastering the voluminous literature on the subject, some of it declassified only in recent years.” — New York Times Book Review
“Timeless, masterful. . .A stomach-clenching, multi-perspective, ticking-clock, geopolitical thriller. Jacobsen expertly delivers a madman’s portrait of Armageddon, one made all the more impactful by the thought that it could literally occur at any moment. Almost novel-like in its presentation, Nuclear War: A Scenario represents the equivalent of an existential gut punch, a sickening and necessary reminder of how fragile every 21st century convenience becomes in the face of a blinding flash of light and near-instantaneous shockwave. Exhaustively researched and featuring interviews with professionals who truly understand just how close we continue to creep toward thermonuclear annihilation Nuclear War: A Scenario should be required reading for everyone alive today, especially for the politicians and policymakers who literally hold the precarious fate of our species in their hands.” — Forbes
“Nuclear War sketches out a global nuclear war with by-the-minute precision for all of the 72 minutes between the first missile launch and the end of the world. . . . the scenario is constructed from dozens of interviews and documentation, some of it newly declassified, as a factual grounding to describe what could happen.” — Politico
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- Anon
- 2024-04-09
Incredibly effective in its goal
I’ve had a sick feeling for a few days since absorbing this book. I feel ‘absorbing’ is the appropriate term because most people, myself included, are completely ignorant of the fact that every day we are here is due purely to luck. Everything, literally everything, can all be gone in a few hours.
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- Anthony
- 2024-05-10
I learned alot!
Great listen ! Gets slower then I liked near the middle but that's expected in simulation/scenario titles.
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- Geoffrey Kemble
- 2024-07-18
Sobering, incredible, horrifying
This book really opened my eyes to the horror and frankly, the stupidity of nuclear weapons. The dramatic flare in this story at first I thought a little cheesy but later really enjoyed. It highlighted that even though there are plans in place for nuclear war, nothing will go as planned. An in depth look into the systems in place and what nuclear war really is...an apocalypse that will surely end society and possibly humanity altogether. This book is am incredible read I recommend to anyone. but be warned, you won't get warm butterfly feelings, there are no heros in the apocalypse.
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- Anonymous User
- 2024-04-12
Riveting and horrifying
An absolutely stunning look into a hypothetical scenario that seems so far away, yet so close at the same time Jacobsen is a true artist.
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- David Zulkoskey
- 2024-10-07
A shocking and poignant account of nuclear war
I grew up in the late Cold War in a house where my brother and I were taught about what to fear about nuclear war. Our father constructed a bomb shelter in the basement and in this time of concern for war we lived and existed. This book brings to life in our modern world what we feared we might experience if war were to happen. In an hour of elapsed time our 21 century world is blown back to the Stone Age. The book provides a chilling reminder of the brutality of dictatorships and the power that leaders of those countries possess. It is a compelling account of the countdown to Armageddon. In literature we have the book On the Beach and in film Dr Strangelove and now this nonfiction work. Hold those that are dear to you close and pray that we never experience what this book tells with precision. All in all an excellent book.
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- John
- 2024-04-08
That Voice.
I normally like when the author reads their book however her voice made it very hard to listen. I kept falling asleep. 😴
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- Billy Jeffery
- 2024-05-11
Compelling. Important. Terrifying.
I consider this book one of the most interesting and thought provoking I have listened to this year! I strongly recommend it to the right reader.
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- Michael
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Truly Horrifying
Puts to bed any question of survival in a nuclear exchange. Absolutely terrifying and the in depth research weaving the scenario together both deep and informed.
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- Dimtiri Lukinski
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Redacted Common Sense
As far I have read about it:
1. Radars can see beyond the horizon
2. Quite possibly most of the Nuclear club members got "EMP satellites" despite "no nukes in space" treaty. It is also possible that EMP weapons will be used first.
3. "Ohio-Trident-II" SLBMs will likely use flat trajectory.
4. Both cruise missiles and anti-missile missiles can be equipped with nuclear warheads and used for the first strike as well as to deal with enemy's AA (Europe is full of those, guess what would be the target?) Guess why Russia invaded Ukraine (after Ukrainian president declared joining NATO and placing such missiles 300 miles away from Moscow)?
5. The terrifying Russian Cobalt Nuke sea drone weapons are not mentioned.
6. The MERV story might not be entirely correct: what about the START treaty?
7. The "unreasonable" North Korean leader is US-educated and arguably the best of the bunch (comparing to his dad and grandpa).
8. Russians would call first and launch if no one is picking up the phone?
9. Russians or Chinese are likely to attempt shutting down that missile before US tries to do the same.
10. According to some sources, the preparation of the biological war on Russia is true with many tests performed on population of former Soviet republics, surrounding Russia.
11. Watching News is called OSINT :-) (the important part is to see how exactly they would "cover the story" or rather lie about something).
12. Could it be that "NATO for peace and democracy" is an oxymoron? I mean shouldn't we be asking people of Korea, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Angola, Nicaragua, Chile, Granada, Serbia, Iraq, Afganistan, Libya, Belarus, UKRAINE, Russia and many other nations of what they think about that "peace" thing?
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Kindle Customer
- 2024-03-31
very detailed and well researched yet still hard to believe.
It's interesting, but I felt that it takes the scenario to an extreme that is hard to believe.
In particular, when discussing the impacts of an EMP attack, the author makes claims about how systems such as elevators in high rose buildings would be impacted, and they clearly did not research these details as they have made inaccurate claims. While there is chance of total apocalyptic full nuclear exchange, it's more likely that more of the systems will not operate as expected when so much of its reliability is counting on humans to behave as predicted.
The idea that the US or Russia would launch everything in their nuclear arsenals at each other when the initial attack came out of the blue and both sides know it was a third-party is very hard to swallow. Facts of continuity of government, and launch control mechanisms are very interesting and sources are credible.
I rate this 4 out of 5.
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