Today, we're dissecting Annie Jacobsen’s terrifying new book, Nuclear War: A Scenario. This is not a work of fiction. It is a meticulously researched, fact-based timeline of what happens in the minutes, hours, and years after a nuclear launch.

Jacobsen’s work answers the most critical questions of our time: What are the real-world protocols for nuclear command and control? How quickly would civilization unravel? What is the ultimate consequence of deterrence failure? Drawing from declassified documents and exclusive interviews with former secretaries of defense, nuclear weapons engineers, and STRATCOM commanders, she constructs a scenario that is as authoritative as it is apocalyptic. The book takes us to what the former head of U.S. Strategic Command warns is a constant reality: "The world could end in the next couple of hours." So, let's start the clock.