2025-08-06
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler.
Today I'm chatting with Annie Jacobson.
Annie started off by studying at Princeton.
She now has, I think, eight books.
Most recently and prominently is a favorite of mine.
It's called Nuclear War, a scenario, was one of my favorite books of last year.
The book is also being turned into a screenplay and will be directed by the Dune Director, Dennis Villanueva.
Annie also has co-written three episodes of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan TV series for Amazon Studios.
Annie, welcome.
Thank you so much for having me.
Now your last book, of course, it focuses on nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
Would it actually help if we were more afraid of nuclear weapons and thinking about them more often?
Or does that just not help at all?
I think it certainly helps, and you probably gathered that from reading my book.
I mean, what I wanted to do, sometimes people say, why did you write such a terrifying book?
And the answer is very simple.
I wanted to demonstrate in appalling detail just how horrific nuclear war would be as a way perhaps for people to have precisely the kind of conversation that you and I are having.