
‘The world could end in the next couple of hours.’ Why we may be on the brink of nuclear Armageddon
Veteran national security journalist Annie Jacobsen has spent decades interviewing America’s most powerful military leaders — along with the scientists and policy wonks who develop and deploy the weapons on which they rely. Forget artificial intelligence: what those elite officers and thinkers still fear most is the humanity-ending prospect of nuclear Armageddon. In her seventh book, “Nuclear War: A Scenario,”...