Annie Jacobsen is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author. Her newest book Nuclear War: A Scenario looks deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment & is 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.

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OUTLINE00:00 - Writing05:37 - Sources08:35 - Nuclear war protocol19:14 - Operation Paperclip38:15 - Billy Waugh's briefcase nuke40:00 - Otto Ambros46:07 - Kurt Blome50:52 - Science & morality01:00:47 - CIA's original black site01:03:32 - Walter Schreiber01:05:15 - NASA01:09:34 - UFOs01:14:49 - Annie's take on UFOs; Strategic deception01:23:36 - Nuclear secrets01:29:41 - Public deception01:38:01 - Human terrain mapping; first platoon01:40:28 - Annie's "Deal" with CIA01:48:39 - EG&G scientist "alien" medical experiment01:59:55 - Inside DARPA02:08:28 - Pentagon hired Sci-Fi writers02:14:07 - Paramilitary assassins; Billy Waugh02:29:40 - War VS Covert action debate02:42:17 - Mechanics of Nuclear War02:51:57 - The interceptor system02:55:25 - EMP's02:59:52 - Doomsday plane