Nuclear war scenario

Author's name: Annie Jacobsen

This scenario, which describes the moments after a nuclear missile is launched toward the American homeland, is based on facts drawn from exclusive interviews with presidential advisers and cabinet members, nuclear weapons engineers, scientists, soldiers, pilots, special operations and secret service personnel, emergency management experts, intelligence analysts, civilian employees, and others who have worked to predict such terrifying scenarios for decades.

Given that nuclear war plans are among the most highly classified materials held by the United States government, this book will take its readers to the very edge of what the law permits. The documents, declassified after decades of secrecy, recount terrifying details.

A nuclear strike on the Pentagon is merely the beginning of a scenario that could spell the end of human civilization as we know it. This is the reality of the world we live in. The nuclear war scenario described in this book could happen tomorrow, or perhaps even later today.

Therefore, General Robert Kohler, former commander of U.S. Strategic Command, warns: "The world could end within the next few hours." As everyone already knows, "there is no such thing as a small nuclear war."