{"id":3727,"date":"2024-11-24T09:38:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2024-11-24T09:38:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T15:38:42","slug":"nuclear-war-a-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3727","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear War: A Scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Annie Jacobsen, 2004, Kindle Edition, Dutton<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book is actually fairly well done, despite the fact that I hated every minute I spent reading it.  The scenario she describes is so awful that reading about it is an awful experience.  I have always had a pretty good picture of what the results of a nuclear war would be, and I don&#8217;t think the reading of this book was necessary to reinforce that picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author describes some of the strategic thinking that was prevalent in the cold war years (and perhaps still is) that included planning for a first strike capability.  I recall seeing the movie <em>Dr. Strangelove<\/em>, which was a parody of that scenario, but was actually a realistic portrayal of that kind of thinking. Jacobsen isn&#8217;t the first one to lament the craziness of the planning that is designed to ultimately eliminate the human race and render our planet uninhabitable for thousands of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacobsen interviewed numerous scientists and government officials who were involved in the creation and the policies we have in place for the conduct of a nuclear war, so the book is well researched.  It&#8217;s unfortunate that the experience of reading the book is so awful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Annie Jacobsen, 2004, Kindle Edition, Dutton This book is actually fairly well done, despite the fact that I hated every minute I spent reading it. The scenario she describes is so awful that reading about it is an awful <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3727\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3728,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}