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Just How Likely Is A Global Nuclear War? - Annie Jacobsen - #778

May 02, 20241 hr 4 minEp. 778
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Episode description

Annie Jacobsen is a journalist, investigative reporter and an author.

The threat of nuclear war has loomed for over half a century now. But the question remains - just how close to nuclear armageddon are we and what would happen if the world went into a nuclear war.

Expect to learn how many nukes there are in the world right now, the most likely steps to an accidental nuclear war, what happens when a country fires the first nuke, which cities are the most likely targets of a nuclear strike, what the most powerful bomb in history was, how many people would die in a nuclear war between the US and Russia, how likely a nuclear war is in our future and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) How Many Nukes Exist? (04:42) Where America’s Nukes Are (09:33) Russian & Chinese Submarines Near America (12:40) What Happens When a Nuke is Fired? (21:24) How American Nuclear Silos Work (25:12) Can We Intercept All Kinds of Missiles? (28:38) Most Likely American Targets (34:55) The Different Types of Bombs Today (41:20) What Happens When Thermo-Nuclear Bombs Drop? (51:23) The Closest We Ever Came to Nuclear War (59:08) Is De-Escalation a Realistic Goal? (01:02:35) Where to Find Annie

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