Annie Jacobsen

So there's like leaders are threatening this is all on the table right now.

It could and should be looked at.

But do you remember back when we were in high school when Reagan and Gorbachev got together for the Reykjavik summit?

Remember that?

That was the beginning of a movement.

poured disarmament.

That was the beginning of this idea of, wait a minute, 70,000 nuclear weapons is just an accident waiting to happen.

And so we are at 12,500 today because of that.

The Secretary General said last year or something, we are one misunderstanding of

One miscommunication away from nuclear annihilation.

He's not kidding.

So his name was Petrov and he was and it was in 1983.

So what's even more remarkable about him is this was at a time of, you know.

Absolute animosity, enmity between the two nations.

It was a really precarious time in the world.

And Petrov was in an early warning radar system outside of Moscow that reads data of possible incoming nuclear missiles.

And he saw what the radar screen, the radar scope was reading as five ICBMs coming from Wyoming, five.

He knew that we would send 1,000 missiles if we were going to launch.

And so he questioned the data.

Which is just so remarkable in its own conception when you think about that.