How a nuclear war starts: Second-by-second timeline | Annie Jacobsen and Lex Fridman

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Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario" and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security.

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[LexClips]

Guest bio: Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario" and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security.

[michaellowe]

6 minutes, that's barely enough time for congress to get their stock trades done.

[camuscolorado]

Her voice is so soothing I fell asleep to a nuclear nightmare description.

[OozyMillimeetah]

"Anybody not wearing two million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day"

- Annie Jacobsen

[Shaun-EZX]

this video is 34 mins long and its crazy to think the world could be over in the short time it took to watch

[wtf_usa]

"If the probability of something happening is greater than ZERO, then the only other factor before it happens is TIME."

[carddealer]

I was a kid of the 80's and I can tell you would rather go at the first blasts of nuclear bombs, then suffer nuclear winter.

[orhanmekic]

It is better to have 500 years of negotiations than one hour of nuclear war.
Orginal quote:
‘It is better to have ten years of negotiations than one day of war’
Andrei Gromyko

[MikeJohnson-dezf]

1980s: Nuclear war must be avoided at all cost. 2020s: Meh

[Fraiserson]

I’m not afraid of death but watching my family die slowly from radiation poisoning is terrifying.

[BENNY_MAC]

Who else loves her voice? Very soothing and relaxing.

[Springbok]

September 26, 1983 is a very good example of a likely scenario. Had Colonel Petrov been sick that night world history might've been different.

[rankalot]

To think we could go from everything being ok to the world completely destroyed in an hour is terrifying.

[frederick]

Humanity has been diligently working on destroying itself from the beginning of man. One day we will succeed.

[Odyssey-ys]

It doesn’t matter how it starts.
What matters is how not to start it.

[akirsonmusic]

"The Day After" 1983 and even better movie "Threads" 1984 shows most of what comes along with and after nuclear war. The second mentioned has a textual ending disclaimer before the end credits: "The film is fictional. The real-life outcome of a nuclear war would be much worse than the events portrayed onscreen".

[meedeenaka]

A nuclear war could wipe out humanity, but it would also have disadvantages.

[thestrokes]

Her voice is always so captivating. If she has books on tape and reads them too, I'm getting them all. She's a brilliant person.

[jfeltman]

They call me a minute man as well, but for a totally diffrent reason

[michaelallen]

My father worked with Nuclear Submarines munitions. Used to scare the hell out of us as kids in the early 90s.