Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy - Lex Fridman Podcast 420

In this 22 March 2024 video, Lex Fridman sits down with Annie Jacobsen to discuss her new book titled, “”Nuclear War: A Scenario”, and other aspects of America’s armed secuity systems currently available today.

The picture she presents is very stark and very unsettling, because the facts are indicating America is not prepared. 

No matter how a nuclear war begins or who takes the first step, the result iis always a worldwide armageddon of death and destruction.

Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of “Nuclear War: A Scenario” and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security. 

https://youtu.be/GXgGR8KxFao

OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
2:13 – Nuclear war
6:57 – Launch procedure
12:36 – Deterrence
16:09 – Tactical nukes
25:35 – Nuclear submarines
28:35 – Nuclear missiles
35:46 – Nuclear football
44:53 – Missile interceptor system
49:10 – North Korea
55:46 – Nuclear war scenarios
1:04:38 – Warmongers
1:09:06 – President’s cognitive ability
1:15:19 – Refusing orders
1:23:17 – Russia and Putin
1:28:23 – Cyberattack
1:29:45 – Ground zero of nuclear war
1:34:24 – Surviving nuclear war
1:38:42 – Nuclear winter
1:49:05 – Alien civilizations
1:54:40 – Extrasensory perception
2:08:25 – Area 51
2:12:23 – UFOs and aliens
2:22:51 – Roswell incident
2:29:30 – CIA assassinations
2:48:23 – Navalny
2:50:48 – KGB
2:57:24 – Hitler and the atomic bomb
3:01:27 – War and human nature
3:04:53 – Hope