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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

This is the exact scenario of this book[/quote]

I read it. Great book, well worth the read. Two things that stood out to me: How the decision to use a nuclear weapon is the President’s decision. Not Congress. Not the Secretary of Defense, although that person will probably be asked to weigh in. It is up to one person, whether it’s the middle of the night or any unexpected random time.  And he has maybe ten minutes to decide whether to retaliate.

The other thing that stood out to me was how short a period of time you can track where the missile is headed. Parts of it drop off after the first 20 or so minutes. You can’t KNOW which country it is headed toward. And you can’t even be sure it’s not a technical error, causing you to think this is a nuclear missile streaking across the sky, but it wasn’t. So you try to contact the Russians or the NK or the Iranians, to confirm or to explain you think, say, Germany is firing a missile toward the US, so if YOU see one headed your way, it’s actually targeting Germany, not to worry Russia, we’re not aiming at you….

It’s a book that has stayed with me for many insights.[/quote]

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