#Annie Jacobsen

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“The Next (and Final) 24 Minutes”

“At minute 72 of a confict that began at 3:03 p.m. EST, 1,000 Russian nuclear warheads begin striking America in a twenty-minute-long barrage of nuclear hellfire. One thousand nuclear warheads strike a nation already decimated by 192 Russian SLBM warheads and two North Korean thermonuclear bombs. North Korea's third and final ICBM-launched from the Hoejung-ni underground facility in Hwapyong County, North Korea failed upon reentry.

The barrage of 1,000 nuclear weapons strikes a nation already stripped of electricity and littered with the dead bodies of nuclear bomb blast victims, victims of radiation poisoning, of airplane, train, subway, and automobile crashes, of chemical explosions of floods from burst dams.

There are 1,000 flashes of light, superheating the air in each ground zero to 180 million degrees Fahrenheit.

1,000 fireballs, each one more than a mile in diameter.

1,000 steeply fronted blast waves.

1,000 walls of compressed air, accompanied by several-hundred-mile-per-hour winds pushing forward from the 1,000 fireballs, mowing down everything, and everyone, in the path.

1,000 American cities and towns, where all engineered structures in a five-, six-, or seven-mile radius change physical shapes, collapse, and burn.

1,000 cities and towns with molten asphalt streets.

1,000 cities and towns with survivors impaled to death by flying debris.

1,000 cities and towns filled with tens of millions of dead. With tens of millions of unfortunate survivors suffering fatal third-degree burns.

People naked, tattered, bleeding, and suffocating.

People who don't look—or act—like people anymore.

1,000 ground zeros transforming into 1,000 mega-fires, each soon to be burning over an area of 100 or more square miles.” (p. 276, 277)

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#REVIEW: Nuclear War: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen

I’ll not bury the lede: this is the scariest fucking thing I’ve ever read. My regular readers might be protesting already. Didn’t I just post a “review” of Josh Malerman’s Incidents Around the House that more or less boiled down to “Nope”? And then I named it Book of the Month? And, like, a week later, this book is the scariest fucking thing I’ve ever read? Here’s the thing: Incidents Around…

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Annie Jacobsen with Shawn Ryan

- Nuclear Armageddon in 2024

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"Nuclear War: A Scenario" by Annie Jacobsen

Thank you @no.more.shelf.control for the rec! This was fascinating! ❤️

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Annie Jacobsen: Inside DARPA: The Pentagon's Brain

Sep 30, 2015

The internet, GPS, voice recognition programs like Siri – many of the technologies that we use today were developed with national security in mind. These inventions and many others began as projects of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Defense Department’s secretive military research agency. For more than fifty years, DARPA has held to a singular and enduring mission: to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. The genesis of that mission and of DARPA itself dates to the Cold War and the launch of Sputnik in 1957, and a commitment by the United States that it would be the initiator and not the victim of strategic technological surprises. Working with innovators inside and outside of government, DARPA has repeatedly delivered on that mission, transforming revolutionary concepts and even seeming impossibilities into practical capabilities. The ultimate results have included not only game-changing military capabilities such as precision weapons and stealth technology, but also major innovations in modern civilian society. How do they do it? What makes this military organization such fertile ground for invention? What technologies with useful daily applications have failed to enter into civilian use? Can Silicon Valley learn from DARPA, or vice versa? Drawing on extensive interviews, declassified memos and inside sources, investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen will share insights into this top-secret organization. 

Speaker Annie Jacobsen is an Investigative Journalist and Author. 

The conversation is moderated by Andrew Becker, Reporter, The Center for Investigative Reporting. 

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Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen

New HPANWO Voice article: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/09/area-51-by-annie-jacobsen.html

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pro tip: don't listen to Nuclear War - A Scenario before bed you'll have dreams of frantic situation rooms

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Te decimos por qué no debes perderle la pista a la próxima película de Denis Villeneuve. El director adaptará la aclamada novela de Annie Jacobsen.

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Annie Jacobsen Book TV CSPAN interview

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Excellent books for a better picture of Sullivan and Cromwell, Allen Dulles, 1947 / exotic technology, JFK, the rise and arc of Nixon, —all during a so-called Cold War and Space Race

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Operation Paperclip narrated by Annie Jacobsen