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How A Nuclear War Ends The World In 72 Minutes | Annie Jacobsen | FO581 Raj Shamani

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Timestamps -

00:00 — Intro
03:42 — Annie Jacobsen Explains Nuclear Weapons: Types, Power & Global Threats
09:18 — How Small Can Nuclear Weapons Get?
11:41 — Why Putin’s Nuclear Threats Are So Dangerous
13:09 — How Many Nuclear Weapons Do the US, Russia, China & India Have?
15:24 — Where Nuclear Weapons Are Stored & How Nuclear Deterrence Works
17:01 — Can One President Really Launch a Nuclear War?
23:25 — Inside a Nuclear Attack: The President’s 6-Minute Decision & Missile Defense
34:59 — How the President Would Escape a Nuclear Attack
40:03 — How One Nuclear Missile Could Trigger a Global Apocalypse
47:27 — What a Nuclear Bomb Does to a City in Seconds
50:07 — The Secret Calculator Scientists Used to Predict Nuclear Bomb Damage
54:15 — Area 51 & the Secret History of US Nuclear Tests
59:42 — Classified Maps Reveal How Nuclear War Would Be Fought
1:12:56 — Why Nuclear War Games Keep Ending in Armageddon
1:16:24 — Nuclear Winter: How Nuclear War Could Starve Billions
1:38:26 — The False Alarm That Nearly Triggered a Nuclear War
1:41:34 — Broken Arrow: What Happens When the US Loses a Nuclear Bomb?
1:47:50 — Why Biological Weapons Could Be More Dangerous Than Nuclear Weapons
2:01:45 — How a Biological Weapons Accident Could Trigger a Global Catastrophe
2:06:29 — Viruses vs. Bacteria vs. Biological Weapons: What’s the Difference?
2:21:54 — The US Government’s Secret Plans to Survive a Catastrophic Disaster
2:24:14 — Why Biological Weapons Could Be Impossible to Contain
2:50:11 — What Governments Don’t Want the Public to Know
2:59:13 — What Annie Jacobsen Knows That the Rest of the World Doesn’t
3:00:59 — What’s the Most Extraordinary Thing Annie Jacobsen Wants to Do Next?
3:08:57 — BTS
3:09:35 — Outro

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In today’s episode, we sit down with Annie Jacobsen - investigative journalist and bestselling author who has spent her career inside the world of nuclear weapons, Area 51 and national security.

We discuss what really happens in the first minutes of a nuclear war - why it’s measured in seconds, why it can’t be stopped, and what a single bomb does to a city. Annie walks us through the chilling math of 12,500 warheads and a 26-minute war, the truth behind Area 51 and why the government let the UFO myth grow, and how, as a reporter, she pries the world’s most guarded secrets out of the dark.

Gripping, sobering and impossible to look away from this one will change how you see the world you live in.

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