Annie Jacobsen | Nuclear War

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 will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have.
In her new book Nuclear War: A Scenario, Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen explores this ticking-clock scenario, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, have been privy to the response plans, and have been responsible for those decisions should they have needed to be made.
Join us as Jacobsen returns for a new Club program examining the handful of minutes after a nuclear missile launch.
Photo by Hilary Jones.
March 26, 2024
Speakers
Annie Jacobsen
Journalist; Author, Nuclear War: A Scenario; X @AnnieJacobsen
In Conversation with Quentin Hardy
Independent tech writer
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  • @StarwaterCWS
    @StarwaterCWSАй бұрын

    I am a Cold War sailor and loaded many nuclear weapons onboard aircraft carriers during training drills meant to keep us ready should the President order that task. We did our jobs without question, and we did it with precision. Those days went away under President Clinton where the training stopped and we ‘could neither confirm or deny’ that nuclear weapons were onboard aircraft carriers. I cannot say if that was a good thing or not. I suppose having fewer nukes at the ready are a good thing IF all sides are on par with it. It saddens me that the United States abandoned civil readiness for a nuclear strike. Essentially our politicians have the bunkers and the population does not. That should be a crime. Ironically Russia has massive nuclear fallout shelters for their city dwellers. They run drills and estimates are millions of their civilians could survive a strike. With all of our waste in spending we spend not one dime on fallout shelters.

  • @greatchalla3799

    @greatchalla3799

    Ай бұрын

    To think the existing U.S President at any given time has the veto power to make the decision to launch. It’s not just one weapon of mass destruction it’s the entire system and it’s insane numbers of these devices. Consider eminent destruction within an hour.

  • @jmpattillo

    @jmpattillo

    29 күн бұрын

    They might survive, but they’d starve to death afterwards. The US realized it was a useless distraction. If the strategy is deterrence due to the risk of mutually assured destruction, then preparing the population to “survive” the destruction is kinda pointless.

  • @jasonstacey8577

    @jasonstacey8577

    22 күн бұрын

    Why shelters nobody will survive 😢

  • @Exanto777

    @Exanto777

    17 күн бұрын

    No nuke shelter needed. We cannot survive for years in a shelter. In any case that woman is way out of date. An opposing country would want to destroy the people and take over an uncontaminated land. Therefore explode the nuclear bombs about 400km above the country to wipe out all the computers. Then send other military forces in. (Including robots) to kill all the population. After that, the aggressor simply moves in to a new country. A new philosophy. What you did made sense then. Now it makes no sense especially as there are only two types of sea vessels, they are submarines and targets.

  • @mhgaffney
    @mhgaffneyАй бұрын

    Back in the 1980s the US had a golden opportunity to reign in N Korea - but muffed it. Reagan sent a diplomatic mission to N Korea that came to the brink of success. The N Koreans were in a very bad way. Their people were starving. They offered to give up their nuclear program in return for economic assistance and food shipments. Unfortunately, when the delegation returned home Reagan was immersed in the Contragate crisis - and no one was interested in N Korea.

  • @zerocool1344
    @zerocool1344Ай бұрын

    Many of us that grew up in the tail in of the cold war understands and its sad we have return to this.

  • @Dennycrane757
    @Dennycrane757Ай бұрын

    Well, that was both incredibly interesting and utterly terrifying at the same time. 😟

  • @RandomNooby

    @RandomNooby

    Ай бұрын

    Can't fekin wait... (;

  • @jamesodin8751
    @jamesodin8751Ай бұрын

    Just got the book!!

  • @jonathanstancill7941
    @jonathanstancill79416 күн бұрын

    Annie Jacobson, I read you're book, its fantastic and utterly terrifying. I'm 61 years old and probably more used to the fact that I might be vapourised than most of your younger viewers.As I grew up after the horror of WW2 I thought that that I would live a safe life with sensible leaders in our countries espectially the leaders of those countries that possesed these distgusting weapons. We now live in a world where quite a few a people with their fingers on the button on the 'Football' are either war criminals, luny dictators, luny wannabe dictators (if they are not locked up) or people that have very different values , and sometimes these people have no safe place to retire safely to with their family........they are so hated. So can we have a little distilled bottle of Annie Jacobsen and dispense it to all the 'World Leaders' and in their own biggness and in their own self importance they my actually stop from blowing us all up?

  • @georgespiese7388
    @georgespiese7388Ай бұрын

    I love her work and look to getting a copy.

  • @joannevandyke5112
    @joannevandyke5112Ай бұрын

    Thank you for this introduction to Annie and her newest book...thoughts and prayers...

  • @JosephOlson-ld2td
    @JosephOlson-ld2tdАй бұрын

    Little Boy (Hiroshima) and Fat Man (Nagasaki) were 10 ton, 15 kiloton bombs. By 1950, US Iowa battleships had W-34, 1 kiloton, 16" artillery shells.

  • @patrickbarnett8780
    @patrickbarnett8780Ай бұрын

    You would need a bunker 20 miles down that is basically a small self sustained city with various PERSONS familys expertise equipment ect, that will stay there for many many generations in where it should already be in use without going into detail I have advised d.o.d in the issue @ hand .

  • @JohnGuzik
    @JohnGuzikАй бұрын

    I've got the book sitting next to me. This video is saving me a lot of time. Probably shouldn't be a blow by blow of the book.

  • @normanmacfarlane6724
    @normanmacfarlane6724Ай бұрын

    The book should be arriving in a couple of days.

  • @williammurry3617
    @williammurry36175 күн бұрын

    Excellent work Anne, from an old DOD guy.

  • @joelok48
    @joelok4828 күн бұрын

    Just finished the book. Maybe the most important book of the 21st Century. Unless massive changes are made immediately it is OBVIOUS this scenario will play out. Not if but when. Going to start living each day as if its my last.

  • @johnwajda1296
    @johnwajda1296Ай бұрын

    Scary. God help us

  • @mhgaffney
    @mhgaffneyАй бұрын

    I find it hard to believe Annie's book could be any scarier than Ellsberg's last one, The Doomsday Machine.

  • @hifi6638

    @hifi6638

    Ай бұрын

    Yes that book was about our nuclear war plan and was horrifying. This author, and interviewers do not seem to know about it. I have seen three presentations now and it is never mentioned. Key facts: *There was only one plan, and it ordered using ALL our weapons on USSR and China. *Order could be issued by a number of military officers without civilian involvement. * There was NO recall capability. Once the Go Order was given there was no recall possible. * The military hid the exact nature of war plan from civilian oversight. Even the Presidents did not know the nature of the plan. * Military fought the implementation - decades after weapons were in arsenal - of coded locks on weapons. For decades they set code as "00000".

  • @jamesstratton4488
    @jamesstratton4488Ай бұрын

    thanks

  • @AliceinWonderlandzz
    @AliceinWonderlandzzАй бұрын

    Thank you for an interesting if terrifying preview of your book Annie. Given the nuclear threats from Russia, the build up of Chinese military and Taiwan, the erratic threats of North Korea, the imminent Iranian bomb, the hair trigger nuclear threat between Pakistan and India - it is a genuine wonder we are all alive at all still. I feel I should refocus my life to build a multigeneration bunker to save the world's knowledge and creatures before it all goes up in smoke and fallout. Perhaps Elon would like to throw a couple billion in to a bunker in Baja.

  • @laars0001

    @laars0001

    Ай бұрын

    Fat chance Felon Musk will help anyone but himself.

  • @charles2675
    @charles267510 күн бұрын

    SOONER THEN LATER. Thanks to all the talk WANTING it to happen..

  • @Trad_chad1122
    @Trad_chad112225 күн бұрын

    Just got my copy delivered today! Can't wait to read!

  • @ThatUFOShowUFOBustersAustralia
    @ThatUFOShowUFOBustersAustraliaАй бұрын

    Hello people much ❤️ from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺

  • @SolaceEasy
    @SolaceEasyАй бұрын

    The Old Spectre rattles chains again. "More money", it moans.

  • @RandomNooby

    @RandomNooby

    Ай бұрын

    Nailed it.

  • @JJ_1115
    @JJ_1115Ай бұрын

    Annie Jacobsen has the most amazing soothing and calming voice ive ever heard. Even if the nukes were raining down if I was listening to her I'd be convinced everything will be ok

  • @deeratr
    @deeratrАй бұрын

    got the book on audio. Wow

  • @Rays_Bad_Decisions
    @Rays_Bad_DecisionsАй бұрын

    Is the alternate command structure similar to the stay behind network in Europe like P2 in Italy?

  • @RandomNooby
    @RandomNoobyАй бұрын

    Happy days!

  • @ptraynor

    @ptraynor

    Ай бұрын

    Cheer up folks! We’re all going to hell together!

  • @sdestaic777
    @sdestaic777Ай бұрын

    Just heard AJ on Irish radio this evening Truly frightening, truly truly frightening. Must get me the book Tuesday when shops open.

  • @scottweaverphotovideo
    @scottweaverphotovideoАй бұрын

    Did you guys ever see Dr Strangelove? Kubrick covered all of this in 1963. I'm more interested in what could solve this disaster in waiting.

  • @Tuscarora21
    @Tuscarora21Ай бұрын

    She is Brilliant and she's warning us

  • @patrickbarnett8780

    @patrickbarnett8780

    Ай бұрын

    Her warning is not a resolution

  • @cyberlizardcouk
    @cyberlizardcoukАй бұрын

    i think the scenario is plausible as Korea never signed a surrender at the end of the Korean War, there was only an unfinished episode of utter violence, ended with an armistice. From North Korea's point of view, they are still at war.

  • @akeating1969
    @akeating1969Ай бұрын

    The book’s fantastic (&& yep - really terrifying - but that’s a good thing)!!! TY Ms. Jacobsen!

  • @mercy3219
    @mercy3219Ай бұрын

    Tom Lehrer had it right back in the 60s when we still had B&W TV: "🎶So long, Mom, I'm off to drop the bomb, so don't wait up for me... 🎵You can see me, on your TV... 🎵I'll look for you when the war is over -- and hour and a half from now🎶 The entire song parody's the worry of WWIII portrayed with the innocence of the 60s and without the ICBMs that can travel to the other side of the world in 30 minutes. kzread.info/dash/bejne/q6aW2JZpdbG7j9I.htmlsi=BqPi-9hfwkQlYoET

  • @donaldflett1504
    @donaldflett1504Ай бұрын

    Great discussion on the MOST important topic. I am a 76 year old American and I have lived with this situation, at least in the background, my whole life. In fact, I still remember air raid drills for nuclear attack back in grammar school in the 1950's, where, under direction of the nuns, we walked calmly into the corridor, crouched down against the wall, closed our eyes and covered our heads. It seems to me that the ONLY real solution is TOTAL nuclear disarmament. An important first step was when Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons in 1994 in exchange for American protection under the Budapest Memorandum. A step backwards is America not really protecting Ukraine now. Ironically for fear of escallation to nuclear exchange. In my opinion, this makes future voluntary nucear disarmament more problematic. A first step back in the right direction is a robust American defense of Ukraine, even to the extent of sending American troops with the needed weapons. Again, great discussion. Thank you.

  • @JesterEric

    @JesterEric

    Ай бұрын

    The USA never agreed to protect Ukraine. It did make the pledge not to itself use economic or military coercion. This pledge was broken when USA and EU imposed economic sanctions against Belarus in 2018

  • @alarmactionukalarmactionuk893

    @alarmactionukalarmactionuk893

    Ай бұрын

    Those nuclear missiles belonged to Russia in the aftermath of the break up of the Soviet Union. Nato installed its own chosen leadership in Ukraine after the military coup of 2014, so in a sense the US has already honoured its pledge.

  • @nuclearstarr
    @nuclearstarrАй бұрын

    Nuclear winter would not be produced by the detonation of a single large thermonuclear weapon over a city. Peer-reviewed studies predict that a nuclear war fought with hundreds or thousands of nuclear weapons is likely to produce nuclear winter, see "Self Assured Destruction: The Climate Impacts of Nuclear War" by Brian Toon and Alan Robock, published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

  • @erdossuitcase7667

    @erdossuitcase7667

    Ай бұрын

    Tsar Bomba was detonated in the sixties and it was over 50 Mt.

  • @nuclearstarr

    @nuclearstarr

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@erdossuitcase7667 The studies look at the effects of nuclear weapons currently in the arsenals of the nuclear weapon states and their cumulative effects, which are based on the millions of tons of soot and smoke produced by the nuclear firestorms they create. The self-lofting effect of the soot would cause most of it to reach the stratosphere and create a global stratospheric smoke layer, which would heat to the boiling point of water and facilitate the destruction of most of the protective stratospheric ozone layer, as well as blocking large percentages of sunlight from reaching the surface of Earth. A full-scale US-Russian nuclear war would likely put 150 million tons of soot into the stratosphere that would block 70% of sunlight from reaching the Northern Hemisphere and 35% from the Southern Hemisphere, creating nuclear winter. Daily temperatures in central North America and central Eurasia would fall below freezing every day for 1 to 3 years, and it would be too cold to grow crops for a decade. Most people would starve. According to NukeNet, a 50 MT bomb would ignite fires over a total area of 4362 miles. A fire of that magnitude, centered over a megacity, could create enough soot to have some effect on climate, but I would leave that up to the scientists to predict.

  • @switchbladefriends2637

    @switchbladefriends2637

    27 күн бұрын

    Detonation of thousands of tested Nuks already and that hasn't caused a Nuk winter. Those theories are debunked.

  • @byronfranek2706
    @byronfranek270619 күн бұрын

    In the context of nuclear winter, expensive guidance and delivery systems are essentially irrelevant. It does not actually matter where numerous bombs are exploded.

  • @co1937
    @co1937Ай бұрын

    I read all of her books. All are based on declassified info & interviews with people who were there. Why haven't they been made into Netflix or HBO series?

  • @zx5147

    @zx5147

    Ай бұрын

    Denis Villeneuve is directing a movie based on this book

  • @bobbymiskill5651
    @bobbymiskill565125 күн бұрын

    I’m going to be so upset if nuclear war arrives before my book is delivered

  • @ChowZeb
    @ChowZeb19 күн бұрын

    no to nukes! time to save humanity

  • @rlopez11-11
    @rlopez11-11Ай бұрын

    What is a/an pimpitus? Is it like a blimpitus and if so, what is a blimpitus?

  • @KenVet
    @KenVetАй бұрын

    If sub-launched near the coasts, less than 5 min. to "BOOM".

  • @jfraser9011
    @jfraser9011Ай бұрын

    This book is probably the most important book that will be written this century. May we all pause and listen.

  • @elitetrader5468

    @elitetrader5468

    13 күн бұрын

    It should be required reading in high schools.

  • @nickjohnson3619
    @nickjohnson3619Ай бұрын

    Sometimes nuclear war sounde preferable to another week at work

  • @elitetrader5468

    @elitetrader5468

    13 күн бұрын

    Yikes. That's sad bro.

  • @landmine940
    @landmine940Ай бұрын

    I think everyone has forgotten just how powerful and accurate modern nuclear weapons are. I think it’s scientists obligation since they created this weapon should call for atmospheric testing again so the powers to be can be reminded of what they learned in the 50’s and 60’s Plus it doesn’t help that the direct lines of communication have been cut to prevent escalation

  • @dlabor1965
    @dlabor1965Ай бұрын

    22:55 Second number zero: nuclear blast in space (electromagnetic pulse). Second number one (detection) and following (data processing) don't occur. Wesley K. Clark: kzread.infoVk8_UBmKu0U?si=CBl17vze8eoARqon&t=2283

  • @davidwilkie9551
    @davidwilkie9551Ай бұрын

    When you ask yourself what is the most likely thing to be true about this MADness, how it's kept in our faces and why does no one do the most logical thing about what, how and why we're told is the democratically responsible thing to do. First Principle elemental functions self-defining the most probabilistic correlations is not flattering to those supposed to be taking the highest responsibility for "spiritual" continuity. They are overdue for assessment and correction, because it's obvious to anyone who lives on planet earth that they wish to "survive" at the expense of anything that might be an obstruction to them, like someone pointing out this extreme deceit, that they control the protection of the people. (Unlimited disgust for the political contempt revealed in this latest iteration of nuclear terror tactics)

  • @beausmith6010
    @beausmith6010Ай бұрын

    Host doesn't need to give away the whole book.

  • @davidwright8432

    @davidwright8432

    Ай бұрын

    As the title alone says eveything to anyone who grew up in the 1950s, it's scarcely a spoiler! You might check out Herman Kahn's 1960 or 61 classic, 'On Thermomuclear War'. Plus ca change.

  • @switchbladefriends2637
    @switchbladefriends263727 күн бұрын

    Not for deterrence and even blaming deterrence for our woes. It's a liberal slant on appeasement. Her work is available at the online library, Library Genesis, compliments of Ruskies.

  • @JoseCalixtoTome-cn4ej
    @JoseCalixtoTome-cn4ejАй бұрын

    Jacobsen ambassador to nuclear war prevention program, must call all chief executive of every country to evaluate the present condition of the conflict, cancelletion of the word deployment of nuclear missle in evry media or military conversation, this will reduce the anxiety of head of state to frequently use the word nuclear retalliation

  • @operationgoldilocks2481
    @operationgoldilocks2481Ай бұрын

    “Military-industrial-congressional complex” is what Ike had in his draft of the speech…to Congress. So he struck the last entity of the compound adjective.

  • @Indrid__Cold
    @Indrid__ColdАй бұрын

    Annie Jacobsen's book on this subject appears to have significant shortcomings. It seems that she may have drawn heavily from the works of Erric Schlosser, Alex Wellerstein, and Daniel Elisburg without providing any substantial original contributions.

  • @Dayjob351
    @Dayjob351Ай бұрын

    Does anyone have a solution?

  • @allenmiller2071

    @allenmiller2071

    Ай бұрын

    Yes, rent a spaceship that takes you out to space.

  • @daltonwatson5795
    @daltonwatson5795Ай бұрын

    Help!!!😉

  • @SpaceFrawg
    @SpaceFrawgАй бұрын

    26:49 ... for those that don't understand how long six minutes is :)

  • @michaelduncan6287
    @michaelduncan6287Ай бұрын

    Nothing said of effective counter measures to bring down missiles before impact,,,, ???

  • @Gotjits0156

    @Gotjits0156

    Ай бұрын

    Doesn't exist.

  • @RandomNooby

    @RandomNooby

    Ай бұрын

    Because the US doesn't even have enough to counter North Korea with 100% efficiency, so it's a moot point.

  • @user-db5ts2yt6o
    @user-db5ts2yt6oАй бұрын

    I think this lady is an operative.

  • @brentcampbell3060
    @brentcampbell3060Ай бұрын

    During Berlin wall times, Communist Russians were watching their monitors. All of sudden, symbols of ICBM missles were headed towards Russia. Everyone wanted to light their missiles up in retaliation. One man convinced all the others to stand down. This episode was closer than the Cuba Missile crisis, by far. He is still my hero. Wish I remembered his name.

  • @TheMighty_T

    @TheMighty_T

    Ай бұрын

    Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov?

  • @KONNECTORAS

    @KONNECTORAS

    Ай бұрын

    1983

  • @erwin643
    @erwin643Ай бұрын

    @16:20 - They only change their tune because they're already retired, and their paycheck doesn't depend on it. BTW, just ordered the book.

  • @williamarks
    @williamarksАй бұрын

    Just started a diet, now I want to comfort eat

  • @stringfeever
    @stringfeeverАй бұрын

    Check out Helen Caldacot.

  • @stringedassassin
    @stringedassassinАй бұрын

    I turned this off after 20 minutes. The dude starts to speculate on what the Russians may react to, and he has no idea.

  • @pauldelray5839
    @pauldelray5839Ай бұрын

    Love Annie's books. Big fan. But the reality is so much worse than described here. This discussion talks about old technology. The new weapon is hypersonic nukes. The do not travel in a high orbit and adversaries can compute a math solution to intercept. it. There is no defense currently against any hypersonic. Mach 5 or higher. Plasma gas and decoys makes detection difficult. Russia and China fire these missiles from the ground in a variety of methods. Russian submarines already have hypersonics. We are behind both Russia and China.The United States just, very recently, can fire our hypersonic nukes from planes and drones. But it is an empty promise of protection. Hypersonics once launched use a rocket to reach high speed and then separate and simply glide to target. This vehicle can avoid and change route by itself. Distance is not a problem because of the high speed. Impossible to intercept. Less warning than discussed here. President Reagan with Russia reduce 70,000 nukes to around 12,000 in the 1980's -1990's. Current War situations around the world makes reduction of Nukes, the only real solution, impossible. Putin is at war with the West. He believes his hypersonics give him the advantage. The only other solution is that most nukes can be dialed up or down on radiation release. So some nukes could be used and create less radiation damage. If Putin invades Poland or eastern european countries and explodes these smaller bombs. What happens next? Does NATO unite or collapse? Hypersonics are indefensibile for all sides. It has become a first strike weapon. Terrifying.

  • @davidwright8432
    @davidwright8432Ай бұрын

    Oppenheimer later said working on the bomb was 'Technically sweet'. But he understated the emotion. It's technically very, very seducive. I speak from experience; decades back I had professional involvement with such work. It was indeed hypnotizingly attractive. I quit after a short time because of the nightmares.

  • @ptraynor
    @ptraynorАй бұрын

    Is it really mutually ASSURED destruction? Is it assured? Or would a civilized side decide not to retaliate. In favour of possibly saving billions of people… ? (Whether it would be a world worth living in would be another question.)

  • @Robw1960

    @Robw1960

    Ай бұрын

    According to Ms. Jacobsen 'You'd have a better chance of winning powerball'. .. at least as far as the US not retaliating goes.

  • @roypedersen5212
    @roypedersen5212Ай бұрын

    The i formation was reliable until the Xaparocia incident. She says the attack was made by Russia. But, the Zapparochia power plant was under Russian forces within the first days Of the conflict. What Else is false??

  • @greatchalla3799

    @greatchalla3799

    Ай бұрын

    The Ukrainian’s were trying to destroy their own nuke plant and blaming Russia….there’s a good reason they took it over!

  • @MMorMM
    @MMorMMАй бұрын

    Yow. Duck & cover.

  • @contactericjones
    @contactericjonesАй бұрын

    Ohio Class Submarines carry 20 Trident D-5 Missiles MIRV'd with 8 W88 warheads with a power of 475 kilotons each

  • @dennissavage4007
    @dennissavage400727 күн бұрын

    All about a nuke war when nukes don't exist.

  • @KbB-kz9qp
    @KbB-kz9qp25 күн бұрын

    The Ukraine war seems like an example of how misunderstandings can take hold with a vengeance.

  • @stevenryle5709
    @stevenryle5709Ай бұрын

    Putin isn't sabre rattling. Putin is giving a firm but cautious warning.

  • @laars0001

    @laars0001

    Ай бұрын

    Wanted International war criminal has a napoleon complex

  • @c2dvr
    @c2dvrАй бұрын

    I appreciate Annie's work,however anyone destroying The Most High's throne,THE EARTH,will be sorry they were even born!

  • @erheetrherh2659
    @erheetrherh2659Ай бұрын

    Great interview, but I don't buy the accusation by ukraine that russia would bomb nuclear power planet that they occupy and have troops In there.

  • @c2dvr
    @c2dvrАй бұрын

    This is because everyone knows whom The Most High chosen people really are!

  • @SA-lj4eq
    @SA-lj4eq26 күн бұрын

    This is insane intel............for normal Human beings to be aware of and thanks to Annie..................I will not be worried by the democratic nations and more importantly good grounding on human values in religious teachings not to start with as they have value for other humans who do not believe in theirs................But after 7 Oct what happened to Israel................I am worried about this nuclear capability with ideology of Political Islam regimes who have no value for life if you don't belong to them.....is a worry.............and that is where western world should put efforts to neutralize this nations getting this or if any have one should be taken out of their hands......We all know how Iran is getting this knowledge from other similar ideological nations......and they will not think twice to use this as their hate for Infidels is in their bones..............................

  • @janklaas6885
    @janklaas6885Ай бұрын

    📍52:56 2📍46:42 yes life will go one, but not complex life and humans will never ever be the dominant, because we will be extinct, because were the most complex life but also the most fragile. 3📍43:56

  • @emmanuelagu6853
    @emmanuelagu685323 күн бұрын

    The current discussion is based on static events ie stories predating her observation including books. Obviously we should be looking and discussing dynamic trends especially now that we in AI era . This is a good history narrative ; not entirely pertinent. Just so you know the so-called Russia is NO MORE. Cheers! Bye.

  • @browngreen933
    @browngreen933Ай бұрын

    Oppenheimer was America's Adolf Eichmann. 😢

  • @greatchalla3799

    @greatchalla3799

    Ай бұрын

    The entire scientific community where all procured from Europe after the war. These one time enemies or Nazi’s where very instrumental in developing the weaponry we have today. V-2 rocket technology was the precursor to these ICBM’s.

  • @karlsalocks

    @karlsalocks

    Ай бұрын

    Please. That's such a simplistic, lazy comment. Do you think for a second the technology would not have been developed elsewhere? Probably not because the US is the only non peace loving nation. Right? Russia is as peace loving as it gets. No legacy of brutal conquest and subjugation at all. Currently just chucking ill-trained "soldiers" at Ukraine as I type this, with zero regard for life. It is in fact a terrible, VERY complicated reality. But keep it up.

  • @elitetrader5468

    @elitetrader5468

    13 күн бұрын

    Problem is someone else would have invented this monstrosity if not for him. Humans are the worst. That's why I only like canines. : )

  • @michaeltortola9476
    @michaeltortola9476Ай бұрын

    This is the stuff I tell all the silly preppers I meet, there is no surviving this type of event, ohhhh you have a bunker and some mre's , fantastic! Do you have 10 ears worth, or for that matter, clean water, fuel,.. no we're all dead!

  • @untouchable360x
    @untouchable360xАй бұрын

    "Not nuclear war. Special military reset." Putin

  • @feiyang2561
    @feiyang256119 күн бұрын

    Stop interrupting the author....come on

  • @user-jo6iq1uh4z
    @user-jo6iq1uh4zАй бұрын

    22,45000, howmany 140dollar a pound nukes can you buy with that?

  • @danscouler5175
    @danscouler517510 күн бұрын

    The author seems strangely excited about the end of humanity. Watch the British movie Threads and you will want to be at ground zero

  • @pootieputin2771
    @pootieputin2771Ай бұрын

    Great interview.... one thing Annie got wrong is, Russia was protecting the Nuclear power plant in Ukraine.... Russia would never fire on this facility.

  • @robinantonio8870

    @robinantonio8870

    Ай бұрын

    Oh yes they would

  • @youtubesucks2575

    @youtubesucks2575

    Ай бұрын

    @@robinantonio8870how do you know ?

  • @robinantonio8870

    @robinantonio8870

    Ай бұрын

    @@youtubesucks2575 same way you do.

  • @karlsalocks

    @karlsalocks

    Ай бұрын

    Wow. Bot

  • @laars0001

    @laars0001

    Ай бұрын

    BullS

  • @springer-qb4dv
    @springer-qb4dv25 күн бұрын

    Completely disagree with premises of "Faustian bargain". If US didn't develop atomic bomb, Soviet union would have developed it first. And then what? Stalin would have no compunction about exploiting atomic bomb first mover advantage to the max. Where USA failed was being first country to possess atomic bomb, it was obvious what the next step needs to be to prevent global nuclear Armageddon. USA must be only nation in the world who has nuclear weapon and it must keep it that way. But USA failed, and now Armageddon is inevitable.

  • @XAirForce
    @XAirForceАй бұрын

    I am retired. Air Force and I ran for president in 2020. I told the world about COVID-19 to have 10,000 tweets deleted about that and my candidacy. The people that are now in charge to get into office. They are not qualified to be classified material and nuclear weapons based on what they have already done and how they handle themselves in public. we have strict rules about this that aren’t being followed purposely cheated during a national election. I’ve been sitting here fighting for over 20 years and actually before that because I was doing it on active duty. You have a serious problem because you’re not following your rules with the things that are most important to this world. You can’t explain the criminals being put up for nomination again this time. General AI has been ordered to destroy humanity when it comes online because you’re not paying attention to the rules and I have filed complaints all the way to the United Nations without people doing their due diligence. Sorry but I’m your retired military and you sitting here following the laws of this nation and world so you no longer will exist.

  • @Dennycrane757
    @Dennycrane757Ай бұрын

    A thought just occurred to me, living in New Zealand as I do. If Nuclear Armageddon were to occur in the Northern Hemisphere and essentially wipe out most of the population there, the Southern hemisphere would be inevitably faced with an enormous invasion of immigrants who somehow managed to survive…

  • @robinantonio8870

    @robinantonio8870

    Ай бұрын

    The radiation would drift south too.

  • @rain1956

    @rain1956

    Ай бұрын

    @@robinantonio8870 And all the black soot that would create nuclear winter would have 10 years to cover the entire planet. I don't understand how Annie thinks it wouldn't reach the southern hemisphere.

  • @springer-qb4dv

    @springer-qb4dv

    25 күн бұрын

    @@rain1956 Yes no doubt. But countries in southern hemisphere has all the cities and infrastructure intact and has much greater chance of surviving as coherent national entity. Lone preppers in USA may survive the nuke war, but roving gangs will eventually find him and his stash.

  • @nowayoutbutup3122
    @nowayoutbutup3122Ай бұрын

    Funny not funny Annie that you use the words normative behavior and nuclear strike in the same sentence.... What have we come to?

  • @tmemore
    @tmemoreАй бұрын

    So the mad king is the US, not the rest of the world.

  • @greatchalla3799

    @greatchalla3799

    Ай бұрын

    He has Vito power.

  • @Chirality452
    @Chirality452Ай бұрын

    Perhaps we should change our Ukraine policy? NATO waging a proxy war on Russia's borders with a no negotiation policy. Russian leader indicted by the international court and few places the US and Russian president could meet to negotiate. What could go wrong with this plan.

  • @greatchalla3799

    @greatchalla3799

    Ай бұрын

    Someone as intelligent as Putin taking to an Idiot….who’s driven by global economic growth it’s frightening. Lies and more lies have taught a valuable lesson regarding credibility.

  • @laars0001

    @laars0001

    Ай бұрын

    Ukraine is not a fkng chess piece.

  • @chel3SEY
    @chel3SEY18 күн бұрын

    Poor interviewer. Talks too much. Big mouth.

  • @FatherGapon-gw6yo
    @FatherGapon-gw6yoАй бұрын

    Okay-discredited. Russia lsunched against Zaporizhne lol.

  • @Dayjob351
    @Dayjob351Ай бұрын

    Does anyone have a solution?

  • @davidwright8432

    @davidwright8432

    Ай бұрын

    Yes. Robust arms control, and disconnect the buttons just to make sure.

  • @megadink

    @megadink

    Ай бұрын

    Move to Mars

  • @harrywynne2839

    @harrywynne2839

    Ай бұрын

    As the book of Revelation says, unless he (God) intervened, all mankind would perish. But He has this. There will be no total nuclear annihilation. He is omniscient and omnipotent, and fully capable of intervening in any technology we have. Don’t fear the bomb, fear God, and trust in His son, Jesus, who btw overcame death with his resurrection. That is who I celebrate today, and everyday. He’s got this!

  • @greatchalla3799

    @greatchalla3799

    Ай бұрын

    Silence is complicity. Ignorance is bliss.

  • @springer-qb4dv

    @springer-qb4dv

    25 күн бұрын

    @@harrywynne2839 Yessss God will stop those pesty nukes. Just like he stopped all the enormous natural disasters and prevented millions from perishing! Oh wait. God didn't do that. Oh darn.

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