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    Jun 03, 2024 4 minutes

    NUCLEAR WAR: A Scenario

    by Annie Jacobsen

    (Torva, $40)

    “Reading this, I sometimes felt like I was sitting on the business end of a ballistic missile.

    Day in and day out, the American Secret Service trains its staff for nuclear war. If it ever happens, they will be more prepared than the president, who in Annie Jacobsen’s terrifyingly realistic scenario gets six minutes to decide whether to kill millions of people while being yelled at by senior commanders and carried into a helicopter by his armpits.

    Nuclear war is unimaginable – but Jacobsen would like you to try. As nuclear nations quietly build up their arsenals, nuclear protest has become as outdated as fashion designer Katharine Hamnett’s

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