SCOUT· 62%45m·2026-08-14·News PoliticsThis Reporter Can Tell Us What Nuclear Apocalypse Looks Like (Encore)
Imagine, if you will, that for unknown reasons North Korea has just launched a nuclear bomb at the United States. What happens next? The journalist Annie Jacobsen has imagined exactly that, and spent more than a decade interviewing dozens of experts while mastering the voluminous literature on the subject — some of it…
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“"Nukes are fake, and so are moonwalks. None have happened again since the original propaganda. The proof it's fake is real, unless you cannot see." -Qanon”
“Thank goodness we don't live in a world where the most powerful country has a complete Nutjob, impulsive maniac in the Oval Office....”
“Trump and the Magas have itchy trigger fingers. They would blow the world up for spite.”
“24 + 24 + 24 = 72 minutes to nuclear holocaust. _> "the time it takes for an ICBM to fly from Russia to the United States is 26 minutes and 40 seconds"_”
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