This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like (Encore)
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This Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like (Encore)

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 14, 202645 min
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Imagine, if you will, that for unknown reasons North Korea has just launched a nuclear bomb at the United States. What happens next? The journalist Annie Jacobsen has imagined exactly that, and spent more than a decade interviewing dozens of experts while mastering the voluminous literature on the subject — some of it declassified only in recent years — for her 2024 book “Nuclear War: A Scenario,” which walks readers through the 72 minutes from launch to global annihilation. In the Book Review, Barry Gewen said the book was “gripping” and declared it essential reading “if you want to understand the complex and di...

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