Nuclear war : a scenario / Annie Jacobsen.
Material type: TextPublisher: [New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024]Description: xxiv, 373 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593476093
- 0593476093
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; 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. Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking clock scenario, based on dozens of new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons; created the response plans; and been responsible for those decisions should they need to have been made. Nuclear War: A Scenario is unlike any other book in its depth and urgency.
Place of publication from publisher's website.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-360) and index.
Prologue: Hell on earth -- Part 1: The buildup (or, how we got here) -- Part 2: The first 24 minutes -- Part 3: The next 24 minutes -- Part 4: The next (and final) 24 minutes -- Part 5: The next 24 months and beyond (or, where we are headed after a nuclear exchange).
"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 projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; 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. Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking clock scenario, based on dozens of new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons; created the response plans; and been responsible for those decisions should they need to have been made. Nuclear War: A Scenario is unlike any other book in its depth and urgency"-- Provided by publisher.