Annie Jacobsen

So that gives you... Here's the guy in charge of the arsenal if it has to get let loose, and he doesn't even know that they cannot be recalled. So this is the kind of misinformation and disinformation and...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres recently said when he was talking about the conflicts rising around the world, he said, we are one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear Armageddon.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres recently said when he was talking about the conflicts rising around the world, he said, we are one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear Armageddon.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres recently said when he was talking about the conflicts rising around the world, he said, we are one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear Armageddon.

So that's the triad, right? And we have the triad and Russia has the triad. Tactical nuclear weapons are smaller warheads that were designed to be used in battle. And that is what Russia is sort of threatening to use right now. That is this idea that you would, you know, make a decision on the battlefield in an operational environment to use a tactical nuclear weapon.

So that's the triad, right? And we have the triad and Russia has the triad. Tactical nuclear weapons are smaller warheads that were designed to be used in battle. And that is what Russia is sort of threatening to use right now. That is this idea that you would, you know, make a decision on the battlefield in an operational environment to use a tactical nuclear weapon.

So that's the triad, right? And we have the triad and Russia has the triad. Tactical nuclear weapons are smaller warheads that were designed to be used in battle. And that is what Russia is sort of threatening to use right now. That is this idea that you would, you know, make a decision on the battlefield in an operational environment to use a tactical nuclear weapon.

You're just sort of upping the ante. But the problem is that all treaties are based on this idea of no nuclear use. You cannot cross that line. And so what would happen if the line is crossed is so devastating to even consider. I think that the conversation is well worth having among everyone that is in a power of position. As the UN Secretary General said, this is madness. This is madness.

You're just sort of upping the ante. But the problem is that all treaties are based on this idea of no nuclear use. You cannot cross that line. And so what would happen if the line is crossed is so devastating to even consider. I think that the conversation is well worth having among everyone that is in a power of position. As the UN Secretary General said, this is madness. This is madness.

You're just sort of upping the ante. But the problem is that all treaties are based on this idea of no nuclear use. You cannot cross that line. And so what would happen if the line is crossed is so devastating to even consider. I think that the conversation is well worth having among everyone that is in a power of position. As the UN Secretary General said, this is madness. This is madness.

We must come back from the brink. We are at the brink.

We must come back from the brink. We are at the brink.

We must come back from the brink. We are at the brink.

When I was writing an earlier book on DARPA, the Pentagon Science Agency, I went to a library down in San Diego called the Giesel Library to look at Herb York's papers. Herb York was the first chief scientist for the Pentagon for DARPA, then called ARPA. And I had been trying to get the number from the various agencies that be. Like, what is the exact number and how do we know it?

When I was writing an earlier book on DARPA, the Pentagon Science Agency, I went to a library down in San Diego called the Giesel Library to look at Herb York's papers. Herb York was the first chief scientist for the Pentagon for DARPA, then called ARPA. And I had been trying to get the number from the various agencies that be. Like, what is the exact number and how do we know it?

When I was writing an earlier book on DARPA, the Pentagon Science Agency, I went to a library down in San Diego called the Giesel Library to look at Herb York's papers. Herb York was the first chief scientist for the Pentagon for DARPA, then called ARPA. And I had been trying to get the number from the various agencies that be. Like, what is the exact number and how do we know it?

And like, does it change? And, you know, as technology advances, does that number reduce? All these kinds of questions. And no one will answer that question on an official level. And so much to my surprise, I found the answer in here. Herb York's dusty archive of papers. And this is information that was jealously guarded. I mean, it's not necessarily classified, but it certainly wasn't out there.

And like, does it change? And, you know, as technology advances, does that number reduce? All these kinds of questions. And no one will answer that question on an official level. And so much to my surprise, I found the answer in here. Herb York's dusty archive of papers. And this is information that was jealously guarded. I mean, it's not necessarily classified, but it certainly wasn't out there.

And like, does it change? And, you know, as technology advances, does that number reduce? All these kinds of questions. And no one will answer that question on an official level. And so much to my surprise, I found the answer in here. Herb York's dusty archive of papers. And this is information that was jealously guarded. I mean, it's not necessarily classified, but it certainly wasn't out there.

And I felt like, wow, Herb York left these behind for someone like me Right. And what the process – he wanted to know the answer to your question. And as the guy in charge of it all. So he hired this group of scientists who then and still are in many ways like – the Superman scientists of the Pentagon, and they're called the Jason scientists. Many conspiracies about them abound.