Reviews - Nuclear War : A Scenario

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Nuclear War : A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.35 AVERAGE

wineaboutbooks's review against another edition

5.0

challenging informative tense fast-paced

Rounding up to a 5 so it goes on my 5star list. But I want to be picky and say 4.75.

Wow this is the most captivating book I have read in a while 6ô it's a "scenario". So it’s speculative non-fiction??? A "what if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon heading towards the United States?" scenario, and then the author goes into great detail of how this could/would likely play out. learned so much about nuclear history, military industrial complex, systems, technology, etc.

Spoiler alert: it would likely bring about the end of times, at least for the next 20,000 years. There is not a scenario in which the US stands a relatively realistic chance of shooting down the nuclear weapon (lol why would that technology exist...l mean, I guess we tried but were unsuccessful in the trillions of dollars spent...) and then doesn't retaliate.

My only reason for deducting the .25 is because I want to know more scenarios. Like what if someone did choose the "humanitarian option" and suffers the immense loss, but doesn't retaliate with nuclear weapons.

I will be thinking about this book for a long time and would love it anyone else wants to read it and talk with me!

nc59's review

5.0

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

nicoleparyz's review

4.0

challenging dark tense fast-paced

This book was very well researched, but super bleak. The author provides a scenario for what would happen if one country uses a nuclear weapon against another. The book goes minute by minute after the first missile is launched to illustrate how quickly the destruction across the world would be. The impact nuclear war will have on all of civilization is terrifying.