And the There's only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours, nuclear war.

And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.

Thank you for joining me on the Jack Carr Book Club.

And this journey in particular with Annie Jacobson and her new book Nuclear War a scenario.

Annie is the author of multiple books in the national security

space Pulitzer Prize finalist and I am honored to have her as the first

guest on my book club.

Annie Jacobson. as the first guest on my book club, Annie Jekosin.

Annie, how are you?

But thank you so much for writing this book.

I mean, my goodness.

Read the whole thing, digested it, spend a lot of time in it, because these days with all the research, and I want to ask you about your research, I read things very quickly these days because there's so much going on. I did not read this quickly. I sat down and no distractions, no phone, no computer, and every single word and read it the way that I used to read before everything got so busy.

So of course it was that was enjoyable, but reading this of course makes me want to even go

through all my my prepper nature and and refine things a little more but

before we get to that though path into writing and becoming an author because

this is a podcast about books, reading and research and writing.

What was your path to becoming an author?

So I recall you and I talking about this before and I love this concept because for me I am one of those people who always knew they were a writer. The dream was to become an author, but anybody can be a writer, and that's how you start, you know, pick up the pen and write, guess what? You are now a writer.

And I went off to a boarding school when I was 15 years old with a typewriter, desiring to be a writer and intending to be a writer and learning the

craft of writer and all these decades later here I am now seven books.

Seven books, which I do have right here for those Pulitzer Prize finalist and look at all of those

right there. We talked about these last time and this is a man I'll get to it in a little bit but all this research that went into these books seemed to have really helped with this especially with people you interviewed in the past who have since

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