Nuclear War
A Scenario
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The INSTANT New York Times bestseller
Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller
One of NPR's Books We Love
One of Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Books of the Year
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
“At once methodical and vivid. In documenting the minutiae of the apocalypse, the writing is redolent of 'Hiroshima', a seminal article by John Hersey published in the New Yorker in 1946.”—The Economist
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Global3 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation2 out of 5 stars
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Histoire2 out of 5 stars
- Nicolas Grégoire
- 28/08/2024
Narrative tunnel vision, poor writing
Frankly, I was shocked at how abysmal the writing and the narrative structure are. I was also very annoyed that facts were distorted in order for the author to achieve her goal of wiping out the human race. Russia’s posture and reply, for example, I know to be laughingly inaccurate.
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Global3 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation3 out of 5 stars
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Histoire2 out of 5 stars
- Pierre Gauthier
- 15/04/2024
Mixed Feelings!
Climate change is still in the limelight, but nuclear risks came back to public attention following the « Oppenheimer » movie in 2023. Now, this book by an investigative journalist goes further by describing the impact of an all-out atomic war.
Reportedly based on a series of interviews with (retired) experts in the field as well as various public documents, it is written as a very effective thriller. Indeed, some may compare its page-turner qualities to Dan Brown’s novels.
Sadly, however, it is marred by repetitions, often of the exact same phrases a few paragraphs apart and sometimes in meaning within the same utterance such as « no agriculture, no farming, no crops ».
The book’s subtitle, « A Scenario », cleverly prevents any criticism of the book’s plot. Yet, the reader’s suspension of disbelief is at times severely challenged, as when the aircraft carrying away the US President and 13 other persons is only provided with 6 parachutes.
Any non-American reader will be struck by the work’s insularity. Africa is not mentioned once whereas the impact of an attack on the US for Mexico and Canada is barely alluded to. Significant detail is provided however as to how animals in Washington zoo would be left to fend for themselves!
By necessity, the information supporting this book is outdated and partial. The persons interviewed were already retired and could only speak of what they knew while they were at work, and this within the limits of what remains classified.
Worse, a shadow is cast as to how rigorously the information was recorded and synthesized. Specifically, the assertion « Après moi, le Déluge » (« After me, the Flood ») is quoted three times in the book. It is wrongly attributed to Emperor Napoleon rather than to king of France Louis XV. The latter was not cynically referring to the aftermath of any war he may have initiated but rather to his heir, future Louis XVI, whom he did not hold in high esteem and whose reign would indeed end with the French Revolution. This may easily be checked on the Internet with a few clicks.
This alarmist work may well contribute to the return of a heightened awareness of the dangers linked to nuclear war. Less sensationalism would perhaps have done a more convincing job.
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