The investigative journalist Annie Jacobson made a name for herself writing deeply reported books about things
you kind of think are conspiracies, Area 51, ESP, and finding they are not entirely conspiracies.
In 2024, Jacobson tried something different.
She has lots of high-level sources in government,
and she conducted years of interviews asking what would happen in the event of a nuclear war.
How would it play out?
Her book, Nuclear War, A Scenario, was a work of imagination.
It was fiction.
But she'd done so much research and she'd talked to so many people
that what emerged was a terrifying and realistic look at how things might actually play out.
And those people in the know on nukes gave her a piece of advice.
Nuclear, you have to look at bio.
Bio, bio warfare.
And so Annie is back to terrorize us with a new book coming up on today.
Explained from Box in the event of a biological war.
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