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This was an interesting read. I had just finished Steven Johnson's Farsighted, which is an interesting book about decision making. This book fit perfectly with that theme because it represents a "premortem" or an example of what could have happened based on a decision before you make the decision.
This book is a cautionary tale about what could happen if a series of split second decisions fed by inaccurate information cause a nuclear war between South Korea, North Korea, The US, and Japan. The results are devastating to all countries involved. Millions of people die, the N. Korean regime is wiped out, and Trump is impeached but acquitted by the Senate.
I saw a number of reviews that argued this book was an anti-Trump screed. I don't think that's the case. This book references tweets from Trump himself and uses language in the style of what Trump would or could say in a given situation. While some of the portrayal is comical if you do not like Trump, it fits his personality well. In fact, I think that the scene where he learns Melania's fate is pretty generous to him when it easily could have been used to mock Trump.
During a section with interviews of survivors I was a little confused by the phrasing of the quotes. In most cases it didn't feel like a native English speaker had been interviewed, even though the quotes were supposed to be from Americans. It turns out there is a good reason for this. They were real quotes from Hiroshima survivors. Which gives them a great deal of credibility and weight.
We should not take nuclear war lightly. This book provides context for why we should not do so. Nuclear war would be catastrophic. Furthermore, the book highlights the fact that nuclear weapons themselves aren't much of a deterrent when there's a leader that believes that people are out to kill him and his family and acts in the most extreme, yet rational way, to protect his life and that of his family.
This book is a cautionary tale about what could happen if a series of split second decisions fed by inaccurate information cause a nuclear war between South Korea, North Korea, The US, and Japan. The results are devastating to all countries involved. Millions of people die, the N. Korean regime is wiped out, and Trump is impeached but acquitted by the Senate.
I saw a number of reviews that argued this book was an anti-Trump screed. I don't think that's the case. This book references tweets from Trump himself and uses language in the style of what Trump would or could say in a given situation. While some of the portrayal is comical if you do not like Trump, it fits his personality well. In fact, I think that the scene where he learns Melania's fate is pretty generous to him when it easily could have been used to mock Trump.
During a section with interviews of survivors I was a little confused by the phrasing of the quotes. In most cases it didn't feel like a native English speaker had been interviewed, even though the quotes were supposed to be from Americans. It turns out there is a good reason for this. They were real quotes from Hiroshima survivors. Which gives them a great deal of credibility and weight.
We should not take nuclear war lightly. This book provides context for why we should not do so. Nuclear war would be catastrophic. Furthermore, the book highlights the fact that nuclear weapons themselves aren't much of a deterrent when there's a leader that believes that people are out to kill him and his family and acts in the most extreme, yet rational way, to protect his life and that of his family.