Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence Operations, and Conspiracy Realities

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Today I'm chatting with Annie Jacobson. Annie started off by studying at Princeton. She now has, I think, eight books. Most recently and prominently is a favorite of mine. It's called Nuclear War, a scenario, was one of my favorite books of last year.

The book is also being turned into a screenplay and will be directed by the Dune director, Dennis Villanueve. Annie also has co-written three episodes of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan TV series for Amazon Studios. Annie, welcome. Thank you so much for having me. Now your last book, of course, it focuses on nuclear weapons and nuclear war.

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