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Cargando... Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024 original; edición 2024)por Annie Jacobsen (Autor)
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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 projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; 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"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Oppenheimer's famous quote of the Bhagavad Gita after witnessing the first detonation of a nuclear bomb he helped to create.
This is, without a doubt in my mind, the most terrifying book I have ever read. I truly almost stopped listening to the audiobook at least five times, because of the levels of terror I was feeling.
Terror from the idea that there are men ruling countries right now that could start a scenario much like this one.
Terror that these weapons are even an option for warfare.
Terror from the level of human destruction these weapons are capable of.
Terror from the idea that, in the span of a little more than an hour, all the works of man at his best could be wiped away by man at his worst.
Terror at some of the protocols in place to ensure, even if one side dies, they'll still wipe out the other side.
This book is chilling. It's a sobering must-read of the insanity that we live with every single day. It's an important book.
And it's going to stay with me for the rest of my life. ( )