Episode · The Tucker Carlson Show · 2025-10-17
Books mentioned on Nuclear Expert Predicts How Launching a Single Nuke Could Wipe Out All of Humanity
It’s a measure of their insanity that leaders around the world are seriously considering nuclear war. Ivana Hughes of Columbia on what that would mean.
Ivana Hughes discussed Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen and DOOMSDAY MACHINE by ELLSBERG DANIEL.
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“This is, um, described really, um kind of with amazing clarity in the book by any Jacobson nuclear war scenario, which describes exactly minute by minute how nuclear war starts, um and can start and then what happens for the next 72 minutes.”
Where to get it
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DOOMSDAY MACHINE
Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner is a non-fiction book by Daniel Ellsberg that examines the terrifying risks of nuclear war and U.S.
Discussed“In the ages. Book, The Doomsday Machine, there's a quote I really, really love.”
Where to get it
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