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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.

Annie Jacobsen is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–finalist in history The Pentagon’s Brain, the New York Times bestsellers Area 51 and Operation Paperclip, and other books. She was a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.

Jacobsen is in conversation with Lt. Gen. Charlie Moore and Jon Wolfsthal. Lt. General a highly decorated retired Lieutenant General of the United States Air Force who is recognized as one of the most influential and impactful senior cyber leaders and aviators within the United States Military. Prior to his retirement, after 33 years of service, he served as the Deputy Commander, United States Cyber Command, where he and the Commander answered directly to the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense as the agents responsible for the planning and execution of global cyberspace operations, activities and missions. He held a variety of additional assignments including command of two Fighter Wings, a combat Operations Group and a fighter squadron. He participated in Operations Southern Watch, Joint Forge, Iraqi Freedom, Inherent Resolve, and Enduring Freedom. Charlie currently serves as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt University and as an Executive Advisor/Consultant on cyber and national defense related issues. Jon Wolfsthal is the director of Global Risk at the Federation of American Scientists. He is a former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at the National Security Council for arms control and nonproliferation. He was a special advisor to Vice President Joe Biden from 2009-2012 at the White House. He has conducted on-site missions in North Korea, Iran, Russia and China and has over 35 year experience on nuclear weapons, deterrence, arms control and national secuirty. He is co-author of Deadly Arsenals: Tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction.

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