Episode · The Jordan Harbinger Show · 2026-08-18
Books mentioned on Annie Jacobsen: What The Government is Hiding About Biological Warfare
Annie Jacobsen discussed Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Nuclear War
Annie Jacobsen's nonfiction book Nuclear War: A Scenario provides a chilling, unsparing countdown and thorough examination of what a global nuclear exchange would actually look like.
Discussed“one of the most prolific comments I got from readers of Nuclear War was exactly what you're talking about. They said, 'You know what? I read your book. It was terrifying. I stayed up all night reading it. I want to go in the flash of blinding light.'”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Area 51
“So, when I was writing Area 51, I interviewed the CIA's first director of the Directorate of Science and Technology.”
Plugged Operation paperclip
“I write about this in Operation Paperclip. Not even a question. We brought Nazi scientists who were running Hitler's biological weapons program over here.”
Plugged The Pentagon's Brain
“And so, that really threw me because being someone who essentially wrote the book on DARPA called The Pentagon's Brain, I was a Pulitzer finalist for it.”
Plugged Nuclear War
“I am going to the Senate to talk to senators about what I write about in my book Nuclear War.”