Nuclear War: A Scenario — When Deterrence Becomes an Escalation System
What if nuclear deterrence is stable only until the moment it is needed most?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen uses interviews with former military and national-security officials, scientific research, and declassified records to reconstruct how a nuclear attack could move from detection to retaliation and eventually to civilization-scale consequences.
This episode examines nuclear war as a tightly coupled system rather than simply an exchange of weapons. Launch-on-warning doctrine, early-warning…
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