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Summary of Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War

Autor: Milkyway Media

Número de Páginas: 29

Buy now to get the main key ideas from Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War What would happen if a nuclear missile was launched toward the United States? In Nuclear War (2024), Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen presents a harrowing scenario where one nuclear missile triggers a full-scale nuclear war that destroys the world as we know it in a matter of hours. She delves into the history of nuclear weapons, their immediate aftermath, and the long-term ecological and societal impacts. Jacobsen issues a stark warning, focusing on the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons and the urgent need for disarmament and peace.

Summary of Annie Jacobsen's Operation Paperclip

Autor: Everest Media,

Número de Páginas: 71

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Operation Alsos was a top secret mission that was an offshoot of the Manhattan Project. It was tasked with tracking down and capturing German scientists who were believed to be working on atomic, biological, or chemical warfare. #2 Goudsmit and his team read the documents, and found out that the University of Strasbourg had been doubling as a biological warfare research base for the Third Reich. They also found out that the Nazis were conducting human medical experiments. #3 In December 1944, a party was under way at a medieval showpiece called Varlar Castle in Germany. The castle was being readied for a celebration. On this night, the banquet hall was decorated in full Nazi Party regalia. #4 The V-2 rocket was the most advanced flying weapon ever created. It was 46 feet long, and could travel a distance of 190 miles at speeds up to five times the speed of sound. Its earlier version, the V-1 flying bomb, had been raining terror down on cities across northern Europe since the first one hit London in 1944.

Guerre nucléaire. Un scénario

Autor: Annie Jacobsen

Número de Páginas: 316

"Le Pentagone, un bâtiment qui compte cinq façades et cinq niveaux au-dessus du sol, explose avec tout ce qu’il contient, six cent mille mètres carrés de bureaux réduits en poussière ardente par le flash lumineux et thermique initial. L’arrivée quasi simultanée de l’onde de choc fracasse les murs. Les vingt-sept mille employés périssent sur le coup." Un État voyou lance un missile nucléaire sur le Pentagone. Dans les soixante-deux minutes qui suivent, le monde s’embrase dans une réaction en chaîne écrite à l’avance. Une fiction, une pure folie ? Pas tant que cela, d’après Annie Jacobsen, car "il suffit d’un seul dirigeant nihiliste et fou doté d’un arsenal nucléaire pour déclencher une guerre que personne ne peut gagner". C’est ce qui se passe dans cette modélisation de l’apocalypse détaillée à la minute, et parfois à la seconde près, avec une force d’argumentation implacable. Pour assembler ce scénario à la manière d’un puzzle, Annie Jacobsen a compulsé quantité de documents spécialisés, dont certains viennent d’être déclassifiés, et interviewé des dizaines de spécialistes (physiciens nucléaires, militaires haut...

Guerra nuclear

Autor: Annie Jacobsen

Número de Páginas: 489

¿Qué ocurriría si un misil nuclear se dirigiera a Estados Unidos? «Un thriller geopolítico desde muchas perspectivas y con un cronómetro que te cortará la respiración». Forbes Solo hay un escenario, aparte del impacto de un asteroide, capaz de acabar con el mundo tal como lo conocemos en cuestión de horas: una guerra nuclear. Hasta ahora, nadie fuera de los círculos oficiales ha sabido con exactitud qué sucedería si un estado rebelde lanzara una cabeza nuclear contra el Pentágono. Segundo a segundo y minuto a minuto, estos son los acontecimientos, acciones y protocolos reales que coreografían el fin de la civilización. Las decisiones que afectan a miles de millones de vidas deben tomarse en seis minutos a partir de información incompleta y parcial, y a sabiendas de que, una vez se ejecuten, nada es capaz de detener la destrucción. A partir de docenas de entrevistas con expertos militares y civiles que han construido estas armas, que han formado parte de la creación de los planes de respuesta y que deben asumir la responsabilidad de las decisiones cruciales, la finalista del Premio Pulitzer Annie Jacobsen logra el más fidedigno y escalofriante relato de las...

Nuclear War

Autor: Annie Jacobsen

Número de Páginas: 266

The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Nuclear war begins with a blip on a radar screen. This is a minute-by-minute account of what comes next. It has to be read to be believed. 'A stomach-clenching, multi-perspective, ticking-clock, geopolitical thriller' Forbes 'Tells a terrifying story in a devastatingly straightforward way' Guardian 'These are scenes straight out of Dr Strangelove' Telegraph There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. Until now, no one outside official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the Pentagon. Second by second and minute by minute, these are the real-life protocols that choreograph the end of civilization. Decisions that affect hundreds of millions of lives need to be made within six minutes, based on partial information, in the knowledge that once launched, nothing is capable of halting the destruction. Based on dozens of new interviews with military...

Summary of Annie Jacobsen's Area 51

Autor: Everest Media,

Número de Páginas: 70

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Area 51 is a riddle. Very few people comprehend what goes on there, and millions want to know. To many, Area 51 represents the Shangri-la of advanced espionage and war fighting systems. #2 Area 51 is the location of the Central Intelligence Agency’s first peacetime aerial espionage program, which was partnered with the U. S. Air Force. It was also the location of several other government organizations born in the interim, such as the National Reconnaissance Office, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. #3 Bob Lazar first met Edward Teller in 1982 when he was working at the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory in radioactive particle detection. Six years later, his life had reached an unexpected low. He’d been fired from his job at Los Alamos, and he and his wife had moved to Las Vegas. #4 The land around Area 51 is restricted government land. There are no public highways, no shopping malls, and no twentieth-century urban sprawl. Everything visible from the air is restricted government land.

Summary of Annie Jacobsen's The Pentagon's Brain

Autor: Everest Media,

Número de Páginas: 80

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 On March 1, 1954, a group of American scientists entered a time when a machine they had created could trigger the end of the world. The most powerful bomb in the history of the world was about to be detonated just nineteen miles away. No human being had ever before been this close to the kind of power this bomb was expected to deliver. #2 The men on the USNS Ainsworth heard O’Keefe’s voice loud and clear outside, standing beside Freedman. These were the physicists who had designed and built the bomb. They were here to witness the results of their engineered creation. #3 The Teller-Ulam scheme meant that the hydrogen bomb was designed to hold itself together for an extra hundred-millionth of a second, allowing its hydrogen isotopes to fuse and create a chain reaction of nuclear energy, called fusion, producing a potentially infinite amount of power. #4 The scientists were shocked by the size of the explosion. The mushroom cloud was forty miles wide, and the fallout was headed in an easterly direction, directly for Enyu Island.

Annie, Annie

Autor: Molly Cone

Número de Páginas: 136

Teen-age Mollie rebels against her unorganized family by becoming a live-in maid at the organized Sigbys and loving it until she finds that, in their orderly household, even free thought is an infraction of the rules.

Airways

Número de Páginas: 1024

Phenomena

Autor: Annie Jacobsen

Número de Páginas: 354

From the author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, this is the gripping story of how a select group of scientists, under the watchful eye of the CIA, sought to harness the power of the mind as tools of espionage and warfare. ‘A well-researched and fascinating tale’ Forbes This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances. For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to divine other nations' secrets, and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy, Air Force, and Army-and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, for the first time, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen tells the story of these radical, controversial programs, using never before seen declassified documents as well as exclusive interviews with, and unprecedented access to, more than fifty of the individuals involved. Speaking on the record, many for the first time, are former CIA and Defense Department scientists, analysts, and program managers, as...

Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping

Número de Páginas: 712

Choice

Número de Páginas: 196

Air & Space Smithsonian

Número de Páginas: 608

Room of One's Own

Número de Páginas: 116

History of Barron County, Wisconsin

Autor: Newton S. Gordon

Número de Páginas: 1768

Jean Chrétien

Autor: Nate Hendley

Número de Páginas: 56

"He failed to eliminate the GST. He almost lost Canada to the separatists. And many people feel he could have prevented the sponsorship scandal. But if confronted with these and other 3failings,4 Jean Chr tien would reply: So what! The story of the feisty 3little guy from Shawinigan4 is still one of triumph, hard work, and determination. Dyslexia affected his speech and a childhood illness paralyzed one side of his face. Being teased and laughed at eventually turned him into a schoolyard scrapper. Neither flashy nor smooth, Jean sure could sound funny at times. He still holds the dubious honour of being misunderstood in both of Canada2s official languages. But he had the smarts to get into power, stay in charge, and get a lot done. Not bad for a kid who was always in trouble at school, eh?"--Publisher's website (www.jackfruitpress.com).