We Could All Get Nuked Tomorrow

"The world could end in the next couple of hours." — General Keeler (as quoted by Annie Jacobson)

The 72-Minute Apocalypse: Nuclear War: A Scenario

Several of you in the Collapse2050 community have suggested Annie Jacobsen’s 2024 non-fiction book, Nuclear War: A Scenario.

Jacobsen's book provides minute-by-minute detail of the end of civilization. The book maps out a hypothetical first strike by North Korea against the U.S.

It takes a mere 72 minutes to go from the first launch to a total global thermonuclear exchange. The immediate aftermath triggers a nuclear winter, resulting in an estimated 5 billion deaths.

"It doesn't matter how nuclear war begins... it only ends one way, and that is in nuclear Armageddon."

Given how often it's been recommended here, I figured I'd share the following recent interview of Jacobsen by Hasan Minhaj, released a few days ago:

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