Annie Jacobsen
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first heard Mar 2024
last heard 4 Mar
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It's just fire, fires burning, fires, 100, 200 square mile fires burning.
And then we move into nuclear winter.
And that's sort of the denouement of the book, where I tell you about nuclear winter from the point of view of one of the original scientists who wrote that original nuclear winter paper,
with Carl Sagan back in 1983.
And his name is Professor Brian Toon.
And he spent the decades since working with the state-of-the-art climate modeling systems that can now precisely tell us what nuclear winter will look like.
I think you would want to die instantly.
I mean, there's a quote from Nikita Khrushchev, the former premier of the Soviet Union, and he said, after nuclear war, the survivors would envy the dead.
Because there is this sense of if you survived, I mean, there is no more law and order.
There is no more rule of law.
There is no government.
Craig Fugate made that very clear.
The bunkers that the people in the military command and control centers would be in, let's say the secret bunkers, not the ones that are targets that Russia is going to take out that I write about in the book, but the smaller ones,
Those are going to only function for as long as there's gasoline to run the diesel generators.
And then those people are going to have to come out.
And who's left?
It's man returning to the most primal, most violent state as people fight over the tiny resources that remain.
And by the way, they're all malnourished.
Everybody's sick.
And most people have lost everything and everyone they know.
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