Luisa Rodriguez speaks to Pulitzer Prize finalist and _New York Times_ bestselling author Annie Jacobsen about her latest book, _Nuclear War: A Scenario._
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They cover:
• The most harrowing findings from Annie’s hundreds of hours of interviews with nuclear experts.
• What happens during the window that the US president would have to decide about nuclear retaliation after hearing news of a possible nuclear attack.
• The horrific humanitarian impacts on millions of innocent civilians from nuclear strikes.
• The overlooked dangers of a nuclear-triggered electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack crippling critical infrastructure within seconds.
• How we’re on the razor’s edge between the logic of nuclear deterrence and catastrophe, and urgently need reforms to move away from hair-trigger alert nuclear postures.
• And plenty more.
Chapters:
• Cold open (00:00:00)
• Luisa’s intro (00:01:03)
• The first 24 minutes (00:02:59)
• The Black Book and presidential advisors (00:13:35)
• False alarms (00:40:43)
• Russian misperception of US counterattack (00:44:50)
• A narcissistic madman with a nuclear arsenal (01:00:13)
• Is escalation inevitable? (01:02:53)
• Firestorms and rings of annihilation (01:12:56)
• Nuclear electromagnetic pulses (01:27:34)
• Continuity of government (01:36:35)
• Rays of hope (01:41:07)
• Where we’re headed (01:43:52)
• Avoiding politics (01:50:34)
• Luisa’s outro (01:52:29)
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