Annie Jacobsen

They can't, there's not enough time to go like, and we're going to try to get it. We missed it. Okay, let's go for another one. So you have to go. Right? So in my scenario, we fire off four, which is about what I was told would one to four because you're worried about the next one that's going to come in.

They can't, there's not enough time to go like, and we're going to try to get it. We missed it. Okay, let's go for another one. So you have to go. Right? So in my scenario, we fire off four, which is about what I was told would one to four because you're worried about the next one that's going to come in.

They can't, there's not enough time to go like, and we're going to try to get it. We missed it. Okay, let's go for another one. So you have to go. Right? So in my scenario, we fire off four, which is about what I was told would one to four because you're worried about the next one that's going to come in.

You're going to use up 10% of your missile force, of your interceptor force on one and all four miss. And that's totally plausible. Right.

You're going to use up 10% of your missile force, of your interceptor force on one and all four miss. And that's totally plausible. Right.

You're going to use up 10% of your missile force, of your interceptor force on one and all four miss. And that's totally plausible. Right.

There have been at least six known, like, absolute, like, oh, my God, close calls, how, thank God this happened type scenarios. One was described to me with an actual personal participant saying, Secretary, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, right? And he described what happened to him in 1979. He was not yet Secretary of Defense.

There have been at least six known, like, absolute, like, oh, my God, close calls, how, thank God this happened type scenarios. One was described to me with an actual personal participant saying, Secretary, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, right? And he described what happened to him in 1979. He was not yet Secretary of Defense.

There have been at least six known, like, absolute, like, oh, my God, close calls, how, thank God this happened type scenarios. One was described to me with an actual personal participant saying, Secretary, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, right? And he described what happened to him in 1979. He was not yet Secretary of Defense.

He was the Deputy Director of Research and Engineering, which is like a big job at the Pentagon. And it was the night watch fell on him essentially, right? And he gets this call in the middle of the night. He's told that Russia has launched Not just ICBMs, but submarine-launched ballistic missiles are coming at the United States.

He was the Deputy Director of Research and Engineering, which is like a big job at the Pentagon. And it was the night watch fell on him essentially, right? And he gets this call in the middle of the night. He's told that Russia has launched Not just ICBMs, but submarine-launched ballistic missiles are coming at the United States.

He was the Deputy Director of Research and Engineering, which is like a big job at the Pentagon. And it was the night watch fell on him essentially, right? And he gets this call in the middle of the night. He's told that Russia has launched Not just ICBMs, but submarine-launched ballistic missiles are coming at the United States.

And he is about to notify the president that the six-minute window has to begin when he learns it was a mistake. The mistake was that there was a training tape with a nuclear war scenario, right? We haven't even begun to talk about the nuclear war scenarios that the Pentagon runs. An actual VHS training tape. Right. had been incorrectly inserted into a system at the Pentagon.

And he is about to notify the president that the six-minute window has to begin when he learns it was a mistake. The mistake was that there was a training tape with a nuclear war scenario, right? We haven't even begun to talk about the nuclear war scenarios that the Pentagon runs. An actual VHS training tape. Right. had been incorrectly inserted into a system at the Pentagon.

And he is about to notify the president that the six-minute window has to begin when he learns it was a mistake. The mistake was that there was a training tape with a nuclear war scenario, right? We haven't even begun to talk about the nuclear war scenarios that the Pentagon runs. An actual VHS training tape. Right. had been incorrectly inserted into a system at the Pentagon.

And so this nuclear launch showed up at that bunker beneath the Pentagon and at the bunker beneath STRATCOM because they're connected. As being real. And then it was like, oh, whoops, it's actually a simulation test tape.

And so this nuclear launch showed up at that bunker beneath the Pentagon and at the bunker beneath STRATCOM because they're connected. As being real. And then it was like, oh, whoops, it's actually a simulation test tape.

And so this nuclear launch showed up at that bunker beneath the Pentagon and at the bunker beneath STRATCOM because they're connected. As being real. And then it was like, oh, whoops, it's actually a simulation test tape.

And Perry described to me what that was like, the pause in his spirit and his mind and his heart when he realized, I'm about to have to tell the president that he needs to launch nuclear weapons. And he learned just in the neck of time that it was an error. And that's one of five examples.

And Perry described to me what that was like, the pause in his spirit and his mind and his heart when he realized, I'm about to have to tell the president that he needs to launch nuclear weapons. And he learned just in the neck of time that it was an error. And that's one of five examples.