467 | Annie Jacobsen: What the Threat of Nuclear War Means for the Era of Great Power Competition

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Annie Jacobsen, journalist and author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Annie discuss what experts predict the initial minutes after a nuclear launch and strike would look like, why the return of Cold War style relationships between great powers has brought the threat of nuclear conflict back to the forefront, the history of the U.S. military and Executive Branch's nuclear policies, and the need to ensure that adversary nations maintain lines of clarity and communication to prevent a disastrous miscalculation.

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0:00.0	Marshall here, welcome back to the realignment.
0:03.1	Today is Annie Jacobson,
0:10.3	investigative journalist and author of the new released book, Nuclear War, a... an investigative
0:13.7	journalist,
0:14.7	a journalist, and his investigative specialties
0:17.5	pulling back the curtain on parts of the national security state
0:20.4	that lie outside of the public guy.
0:22.8	She's written about CIA-Parlenitary operations
0:25.8	during the War on Terror, Area 51, Operation PaperClip,
0:29.6	which was the US effort to recruit Nazi scientists during the Cold War
0:34.0	and the Cold War II and DARPA, the US
0:37.7	military's primary research agency.
0:40.2	In nuclear war scenario, Annie
0:42.3	focuses not on the before parts of nuclear conflicts, so not proliferation,
0:47.6	not debates around the number of nukes we should have, not how nukes actually work,
0:51.3	but she just focuses on how experts inside and
0:54.1	outside the nuclear community, and of course the broader military as a whole,
0:57.8	consider how the US and other powers would react to the use of a nuclear weapon.
1:03.2	This is obviously a really heady and heavy topic,
1:06.0	so this isn't an episode where I can just say, hey, hope you guys enjoy this one,
1:09.2	but given the fact that we live in a world that's increasingly defined by the possibility of great
1:14.5	powers with nuclear weapons standing in front of each other much as they did during the Cold War,
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