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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Annie Jacobsen - Nuclear War
Description: Would you even have time to duck and cover?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. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile wi...