Nuclear War A Scenario Annie Jacobsen by Annie Jacobsen 9780593850671, 059385067X instant download after payment.

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.
 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.
“The Story of the human race is War. Except for brief and precarious interludes, there has never been peace
in the world; and before history began, murderous strife was universal and unending.”
—Winston Churchil