A nuclear war expert who claims we are approaching atomic war says it would take 72 minutes to wipe out five billion people if the worst happened.
Connecticut-based investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen, a New York Times bestselling author and 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist, joined Steven Bartlett on The Diary of a CEO podcast about how close we are to nuclear war.
Since he began writing his book Nuclear War: A Scenario, in 2020 he said: “The geopolitical temperature of the world has risen to a point that you have not seen in your life and that I have not seen in my life.”
In the month his book was published, Russian President Putin moved nuclear weapons to Belarus, stating that it is a precautionary measure for “anyone thinking of inflicting strategic defeat” on Russia.
Annie said: “If a nuclear exchange occurs – and we are talking about strategic ballistic missiles – it will not stop until the world ends and we are talking about seconds and minutes, not days, weeks and months.”
Nuclear war expert Annie Jacobsen from Connecticut, USA, revealed that we are getting closer to atomic war on The Diary of a CEO podcast
Annie, who interviewed former defense secretaries, a former nuclear submarine commander and a former cyber chief, revealed that they all said that ‘the nuclear threat is always there.’
She said: During the previous administration, former President Trump, there was this presidential rhetoric, as you remember: fire and fury, Trump and the leader of North Korea threatening this kind of thing. And like many, I’m sure, I began to wonder, “My goodness, what happens if deterrence, another word for prevention, fails?” and that’s the question I ask all those sources in the book.’
The investigative journalist went on to explain that the president of the United States has only presidential authority to launch a nuclear weapon.’
She said that that means? it’s exactly the same sounds, is “presidential alone.” He is the POTUS authority. he doesn’t have to ask to anyone for permission, not to the SEF, no the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The staff, not Congress.
Explaining why this power would be given to a single person, he explained: “Iyou don’t have to do with the ticking of the clock.
‘An intercontinental ballistic missile (intercontinental ballistic missile) travels from one continent to the next in approximately 30 minutes carry a nuclear warhead to attackaim.
‘THere it’s only 30 minutes, this is not like, “Hey guys, should we go have a war in Iraq. Let’s discuss this, come on debate”, this is: “There is a ballistic Mr. missile coming towards the United States. and you must act” and that is why, in the simple terms, sole Presidential authority exists.’
Annie, a New York Times bestselling author and 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist, joined Steven Bartlett (pictured) on The Diary of a CEO podcast about how close we are to nuclear war.
Since he began writing his book Nuclear War: A Scenario, in 2020 he said: “The geopolitical temperature of the world has risen to a point that you have not seen in your life and that I have not seen in my life.”
Annie revealed that she wanted to write the book because people have become complacent about the threat of nuclear war and some may not even know what that would mean for their lives.
She said: “I wanted to show in horrifying detail how horrible and apocalyptic nuclear war will be because I think many people have forgotten, or don’t know, the consequences of a nuclear exchange to begin with.”
Annie information obtained from the defense department documents and defense scientists to be able to determine precisely what happens during a nuclear attack.
She said: ‘Ohn above the initial flash of thermonuclear light, which is 180 million degrees, which set fire to everything within nine miles diameter radius; above demolition effect of wind and all buildings going down and more fires lighting up in addition to radiation poisoning people to death in minutes and hours and days and weeks, if they have survived, in addition to all that, each one of these fires creates a mega fire that it’s 100 or more square miles and so on.’
The author said that if the world entered a nuclear war “we would want to die instantly” because “there is no law and order anymore.”
She said: ‘YouHere is a Quoting Nikita Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he said: “AAfter the nuclear war, the survivors envy him dead”.
‘WWho is left? He is the man who returns to The most primary and most violent state as people. fight for the minuscule resources that they remain, and by the way they are all malnourished, everyone is sick and most People have lost everything and everyone. they know. How will that be? feel?’
Elsewhere, Annie revealed that North Korea has launched more than 100 ballistic missiles in an 18-month period starting in 2022. Although they were tests, she said other nations inform each other when they are going to conduct tests so that it does not cause anxiety. no confusion.
She said: ‘North Korea does not adhere to that. All that command and control is focused on, “Is this coming at us?” North Korea Do not announce these tests and imagine the anxiety in those command bunkers every time they launch a ballistic missile.
‘This is so dangerous and so scoundrel. In one hand I say “There are no rules for nuclear war, but there are some rules for nuclear deterrence, as you tell your neighbors.”
If a nuclear war broke out, Annie said the safest place would be Australia or New Zealand because of the agricultural resources.
She said: “Agriculture would fail and when agriculture fails people just die and then you get radiation poisoning because the ozone layer will be so damaged and destroyed that you won’t be able to be outside in the sunlight, so people will be forced to live underground, fighting for food everywhere except New Zealand and Australia.