#420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy

Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of
"Nuclear War: A Scenario" and many other books on war, weapons,
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (07:37)
- Nuclear war (12:21) - Launch procedure (18:00) - Deterrence
(21:34) - Tactical nukes (30:59) - Nuclear submarines (33:59) -
Nuclear missiles (41:10) - Nuclear football (50:17) - Missile
interceptor system (54:34) - North Korea (1:01:10) - Nuclear war
scenarios (1:10:02) - Warmongers (1:14:31) - President's cognitive
ability (1:20:43) - Refusing orders (1:28:41) - Russia and Putin
(1:33:48) - Cyberattack (1:35:09) - Ground zero of nuclear war
(1:39:48) - Surviving nuclear war (1:44:06) - Nuclear winter
(1:54:29) - Alien civilizations (2:00:04) - Extrasensory perception
(2:13:50) - Area 51 (2:17:48) - UFOs and aliens (2:28:15) - Roswell
incident (2:34:55) - CIA assassinations (2:53:47) - Navalny
(2:56:12) - KGB (3:02:48) - Hitler and the atomic bomb (3:06:52) -
War and human nature (3:10:17) - Hope