Why Our Nuke Interceptor Missiles Won't Save Us From a Nuclear Holocaust | Annie Jacobsen

Annie Jacobsen is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author. Her newest book Nuclear War: A Scenario looks deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment & is 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.

[DannyJonesClips]

Annie Jacobsen is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author. Her newest book Nuclear War: A Scenario looks deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment & is 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.

[willswalkingwest]

A few days back I had a heated discussion with a 30 something fellow who lives in NYC.
He could not grasp that a nuclear bomb would destroy the city.
He was convinced that he could go to an inside room of his apartment building to survive the blast.
He believed the threat of radiation would be gone in 6 hours.
He believes the city has contingency plans to bring services back online after a blast.
I went from one point to the next to show him how wrong he is.
No one in the city would ultimately survive. Certainly not above ground and likely not underground.
And afterwards, those who DID survive the blast would face a bleak, miserable existence before they finally succumbed.
He pointed out the public service announcements the city has been showing on TV, (I've seen them).
They are ridiculously misleading, telling people to get inside and close blinds and drapes...lol.
My point with all of this is that we have a couple generations of people who have no FEAR of nuclear weapons. They have no grasp of the gravity of what will happen when they're used.
It's an unsurvivable scenario.
And now, something I NEVER imagined in my lifetime, we have World leaders speaking out loud, threatening to use these weapons.
Our White House is controlled by invisible, unelected people, mostly young Harvard and Yale graduates, dictating policy to the dinosaurs who pretend to be in charge in front of the cameras.
And none of these people have a clue as to the gravity of the consequences of using these weapons.
I believe the US will fire the first one. They have this fantasy about "strategic " nuclear weapons that can be used on battlefields.
And that fantasy leads them to believe these smaller attacks will nor lead to full on nuclear Armageddon.
We are teetering on world destruction and the bulk of the population is not concerned.
And that is scary as sh**t.

[PxNxWxGxW]

It doesnt matter who starts it. Once it does start Humanity wont be the same for a long ass time.

[jds]

That’s why when you hear a politician casually talk about nuclear war, they shouldn’t even be managing a Burger King!

[goingoutonmyshield]

"Strange Game ...
The only winning move is not to play"

"How about a nice game of Chess!?"

[henrikklarsen]

When she starts talking about the nuclear deterrent (MAD) as "just a theorethical phenomenon" I struggled to pay attention, because that "theorethical phenomenon" has stood the test of time since World War II. There hasn't been a single war between two countries where a nuclear power got attacked. Neither has there been a war between countries where one of them were allied to a nuclear power. Some smaller skirmishes sure, if we count the India-Pakistan situation, but there's never been an all-out war.

[coffee_drinker]

I've known this for years. I'm not sure why so many people don't know this. "You got this New York!"

[pgress]

I especially liked the timing and the placement of the sun blocker advertisement (protection factor 50).

[davidtatum]

I find this woman's voice quite soothing.

[vahagnmelikyan]

When it happens you won't have a time to think. It will be so quick, so no worries live your life.

[Jdowling]

Castle bravo and especially tsar bomba, make ivy mike look relatively small. And tsar was in '61

[Severloh]

Annie Jacobsen, I love her voice. I could listen to her talk all night

[williamwillaims]

My Pop was too young for WW2 buy just a year or so. He ended up stationed in Japan going over as military police to help with the clean up after the bombs. He never spoke about it, I assume people melted into concrete... he became an alcoholic later in life.

I really hope these stories of UFO's around nuclear silos are true - I think they would be the only things that could stop nukes once launched 😢

[davidstevens]

If I'm not mistaken, the Trident D5 can carry up to a dozen warheads per missile. Multiple warheads decreases the need for one huge one. They are usually in the multi-kiloton range on the Trident. It can carry warheads in the low megaton range, but I think the number of warheads is reduced as the individual weapon's power increases.

[thegulagarchipelago]

We're getting old Annie but Still a MASSIVE FAN of you😊

[benthere]

Im 70 and live three miles from Pearl Harbor. I expect a rapid magnificent lightshow soon. What a way to go!

[joehaley]

I remember that back then, the U.S.A almost started a nuclear war against Libya

[vernonladd]

Welp, hopefully the Aliens reveal themselves before we get to that point.

[JDRoss]

I’m high AF right now and I’m about to buy her book.

[carlstaude]

This is pure evil . Very depressing to even think of this. How can humanity even think of this. Shows how insane we are to create destruction when we should concenntrate on poverty and hunger!!!! We all live on one What on earth oare we