Nothing less than the end of the world as we know it – or in Biblical terms: Armageddon, The Final Judgement, The Apocalypse – is the topic of Annie Jacobsen‘s latest dystopian non-fiction book “Nuclear War – A Scenario“. As already the title puts it point blank, she provides a source-based, factual minute-by-minute scenario of the unfolding of an atomic attack against the United States, eventually resulting in full-scale, all-out, global nuclear conflict in as little as 72 minutes. Or: A bone-chilling journey of a little bit more than an hour from first notice of launch to nuclear winter. A book review. By Karsten Groeger.

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