Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Episode: Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy | Lex Fridman Podcast #420
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Operation paperclip
Buy on Amazon"The following is a conversation with Annie Jacobsen, an investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of several amazing books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security, including the books titled 'Area 51', 'Operation Paperclip', 'The Pentagon's Brain Phenomena', 'Surprise, Kill, Vanish', and her new book, 'Nuclear War'."
Surprise, Kill, Vanish
Buy on Amazon"The following is a conversation with Annie Jacobsen, an investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of several amazing books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security, including the books titled 'Area 51', 'Operation Paperclip', 'The Pentagon's Brain Phenomena', 'Surprise, Kill, Vanish', and her new book, 'Nuclear War'."
Nuclear War
Buy on Amazon"The following is a conversation with Annie Jacobsen, an investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of several amazing books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security, including the books titled 'Area 51', 'Operation Paperclip', 'The Pentagon's Brain Phenomena', 'Surprise, Kill, Vanish', and her new book, 'Nuclear War'."
Nuclear War
Buy on Amazon"That was one of the most remarkable details I really nailed down for this book when I was reporting it and talking to Secretaries of Defense."
Nuclear War
Buy on Amazon"I think the sense-making part of this is really what I'm after in this book, because I want people to understand, on the one hand, it's incredibly simple; it's just the people that have made it so complicated."
The Cold and the Dark
Buy on Amazon"Carl Sagan talked about that in this amazing book he wrote with two scientist colleagues called "The Cold and the Dark.""
Phenomena
Buy on Amazon"You've written, like you said, the book "Phenomena" on the secret history of the US government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis."
Area 51
Buy on Amazon"I mean, my first learning about the CIA came from the work I did on the "Area 51" book about their aerial reconnaissance programs, which were set up again to prevent World War III, nuclear World War III."
Surprise, Kill, Vanish
Buy on Amazon"Later, I wrote a book about the CIA's paramilitary, "Surprise, Kill, Vanish.""
First Platoon
Buy on Amazon"But the real problem, what has happened, and I write about this in my book, 'First Platoon', which is about a group of young soldiers who goes to Afghanistan and unwittingly becomes part of the Defense Department’s biome efforts to capture biometrics on 85% of the population of Afghanistan."
Operation paperclip
Buy on Amazon"In my research on Third Reich weapons for 'Operation Paperclip', because of course, we got a lot of those scientists after."