Annie Jacobsen

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473 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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Talking Scared · 289 – Annie Jacobsen & Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

Some sources are like interviews are, you know, one or two or three. voice-verified

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you know, hundreds of hours, literally. voice-verified

And a lot of times with the people I really get to know, I often say, and this is a real longer conversation with them or intended to be, which is, why did you do what you did? voice-verified

You know, these are people who work on assassination programs, for example, in the Cold War, you know, really dark, dark operations. voice-verified

And inevitably you voice-verified

number of them would say to me, I did what I did to prevent nuclear world war three. voice-verified

And so that's what led to the nuclear war book. voice-verified

And then it was the individuals in the nuclear war book were like, Annie, you have to look at bio. voice-verified

I mean, what a great question. voice-verified

Something I think about myself a lot. voice-verified

I have been doing this for 20 years now, so it's not my first rodeo. voice-verified

And I believe when you put a lot of time and effort into something, voice-verified

earnestly with good intentions and you're willing to learn and be flexible and make mistakes and figure out things as you go along and ask for help and help others, I do believe your career builds. voice-verified

But on that note, I had a very, very interesting experience just last week voice-verified

So in 2015, I published a book called The Pentagon's Brain, and it was about DARPA, which is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. voice-verified

That is the weapons science program, the science agency that develops weapons of the future at the Pentagon. voice-verified

And this was the book that was the Pulitzer Prize finalist because no one had ever written comprehensively about DARPA before. voice-verified

It's extremely secret. voice-verified

And I couldn't get DARPA, current DARPA people to talk to me. voice-verified

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