Annie Jacobsen
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2,389 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2024
last heard 4 Mar
Annie Jacobsen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It gets there by star sighting.
So you realize there's this little panel that opens up in the ballistic missile.
And there are other ways that it's navigating.
But the primary mean of navigation is star sighting.
I mean, you just have to really stop and go, oh, first of all, it's actually a really interesting concept that the...
most advanced, potentially civilization-ending ballistic missile is guiding itself to its target by this ancient concept, like that our hunter-gatherer ancestors used, which is looking at the stars.
And that's meant to be...
A defense against a system, an enemy taking control of your nuclear weapons.
Which is...
maybe time for the answer to your question of should we be at zero, right?
Yeah.
So what you have presented, which would be the whole point of somebody like me writing a book that somebody like you would read of a younger generation and begin having these conversations with their colleagues and their thought leaders and the people that could maybe influence public policy and saying, well, that would be a very good reason to have zero nuclear weapons or, you know, everybody gets 10.
I'm making that up.
But, right?
Yeah.
Because if you have 12,500 nuclear weapons, it's better than 70,000.
But there's way too many for an artificially intelligent, you know, trigger scenario like you're talking about.
Optimistic about?
The future.
I wrote this book as the optimistic, hopeful person that's saying, read this and realize that a man-made problem has a man-made solution.
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