The Terrifying Prospect of Population Disappearance in Annie Jacobsen's Future Nuclear War #war

Annie Jacobsen (born June 28, 1967) is an American investigative journalist, author, and a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist. She writes for and produces television programs, including Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan for Amazon Studios, and Clarice for CBS. She was a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine from 2009 until 2012.

Jacobsen writes about war, weapons, security, and secrets. Jacobsen is best known as the author of the 2011 non-fiction book, Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base, which The New York Times called "cauldron-stirring."[1] She is an internationally acclaimed and sometimes controversial author who, according to one critic, writes sensational books by addressing popular conspiracies.[2]

Books
Her 2011 book, Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base, about Area 51, makes the claim that the Roswell UFO incident was a Soviet plot to induce War of the Worlds style hysteria.[3] The New York Times called it "noteworthy for its author’s dogged devotion to her research".[1] Richard Rhodes, writing in The Washington Post, was more critical of her Roswell claim and its reliance on a single source, writing "Jacobsen shows herself at a minimum extraordinarily gullible or journalistically incompetent."[4]

Jacobsen's 2014 book, Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America[5] was called "perhaps the most comprehensive, up-to-date narrative available to the general public" in a review by Jay Watkins of the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence.[6] Operation Paperclip was included in a list of the best books of 2014 by The Boston Globe.[7] Leading space historian Michael J. Neufeld gave a negative review of the book: "I cannot endorse Operation Paperclip because: it is error-ridden, it produces no fundamentally new information, it is unbalanced, and its notes are poor."[8]

The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency,[9] was chosen as finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in history.[10] The Pulitzer committee described the book as "A brilliantly researched account of a small but powerful secret government agency whose military research profoundly affects world affairs." The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and the Amazon Editors chose Pentagon's Brain as one of the best non-fiction books of 2015.

Her next book was published in March 2017: Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.[11]

[frstchan]

Knowing this. Wouldn't it be wise to not retaliate? Obviously you would never say this out loud, but if it ever happened...

[HerMajesty]

We are spiritual beings having a human experience. No fear.

[Mr.House-]

I’m always thinking nuclear war because war… war never changes

[julienrockingham-ipco]

This is for all the parents to figure out

[JJAB]

Thanks, thats what we all wanted. The opinion of some random middle aged woman.

[feckdrinkgirls]

minute 1: russia fires their nukes at everyone.
minute 2: *EVERYONE FIRES **_THEIR_** NUKES AT RUSSIA*
Putin hasn't thought his threats through very well.