Annie Jacobsen

He questioned it and he didn't send it up the chain of command as a missile attack.

Well, I get into this in the book, which is terrifying.

So let me back up for a second of how good our technology is.

So we have a system in space, a satellite system called SIBRS, Space Base Infrared Satellite System.

It's like the Paul Revere of the 21st century.

It is parked over our enemies that have nuclear weapons.

And it can see and detect a nuclear launch of an ICBM in a fraction of a second, Joe.

Confirmed fact.

That's why nuclear war begins and ends in 72 minutes because the Sibber satellite system sees the launch and then the U.S.

nuclear command and control goes into – begins.

And by the way, an ICBM cannot be redirected and it cannot be recalled.

So ballistic missiles are hypersonic.

So a little bit of a misnomer there.

And also a hypersonic missile, let's just say it went from Russia to the United States, it might take an hour.

A ballistic missile launched from a launch pad outside Moscow takes 26 minutes and 40 seconds to get to Washington, D.C.

That number is not going to change.

That's gravity.

That's physics.

That's what it was in 1958, 59, and that's what it is today.

Yes, but our – okay, so if you go with that logic and you say, well, it can move around, so it would be harder to shoot down.