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020			_a9780593476093 (hbk.) _cUSD30.00
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100			_aJACOBSEN Annie _eauthor
245			_aNuclear war: _ba scenario/ _cby Annie Jacobsen
260			_aNew York: _bDutton, _c2024
300			_axxiv, 373 pages: _billustrations, maps; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aUp to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the Pentagon. Second by second and minute by minute, these are the real-life protocols that choreograph the end of civilisation as we know it. Frantic calls over secure lines work to confirm the worst as armoured helicopters are scrambled to evacuate the chosen few to secure bunkers. One nuclear missile will provoke two dozen in return. Decisions over hundreds of millions of lives need to be made within six minutes, based on partial information, knowing that once launched, nothing is capable of halting the destruction. Based on dozens of new interviews with military and civilian experts, Nuclear War is at once a compulsive non-fiction thriller and a powerful argument that we must rid ourselves of these world-ending weapons for ever.
650			_aNUCLEAR WARFARE _xFORECASTING _zUNITED STATES
650			_aNUCLEAR WARFARE _xGOVERNMENT POLICY
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