Figuring Out · FO581

In today’s episode, we sit down with Annie Jacobsen - investigative journalist and bestselling author who has spent her career inside the world of nuclear weapons, Area 51 and national security.

1. 03:42Annie Jacobsen Explains Nuclear Weapons: Types, Power & Global Threats
2. 09:18How Small Can Nuclear Weapons Get?
3. 11:41Why Putin’s Nuclear Threats Are So Dangerous
4. 13:09How Many Nuclear Weapons Do the US, Russia, China & India Have?
5. 15:24Where Nuclear Weapons Are Stored & How Nuclear Deterrence Works
6. 17:01Can One President Really Launch a Nuclear War?
7. 23:25Inside a Nuclear Attack: The President’s 6-Minute Decision & Missile Defense
8. 34:59How the President Would Escape a Nuclear Attack
9. 40:03How One Nuclear Missile Could Trigger a Global Apocalypse
10. 47:27What a Nuclear Bomb Does to a City in Seconds
11. 50:07The Secret Calculator Scientists Used to Predict Nuclear Bomb Damage
12. 54:15Area 51 & the Secret History of US Nuclear Tests
13. 59:42Classified Maps Reveal How Nuclear War Would Be Fought
14. 1:12:56Why Nuclear War Games Keep Ending in Armageddon
15. 1:16:24Nuclear Winter: How Nuclear War Could Starve Billions
16. 1:38:26The False Alarm That Nearly Triggered a Nuclear War
17. 1:41:34Broken Arrow: What Happens When the US Loses a Nuclear Bomb?
18. 1:47:50Why Biological Weapons Could Be More Dangerous Than Nuclear Weapons
19. 2:01:45How a Biological Weapons Accident Could Trigger a Global Catastrophe
20. 2:06:29Viruses vs. Bacteria vs. Biological Weapons: What’s the Difference?
21. 2:21:54The US Government’s Secret Plans to Survive a Catastrophic Disaster
22. 2:24:14Why Biological Weapons Could Be Impossible to Contain
23. 2:50:11What Governments Don’t Want the Public to Know
24. 2:59:13What Annie Jacobsen Knows That the Rest of the World Doesn’t
25. 3:00:59What’s the Most Extraordinary Thing Annie Jacobsen Wants to Do Next?