Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-12-11
Books mentioned on Part Five: The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All
Robert tells Margaret about the giant meeting the military held to tell everyone how they planned to kill the world. See omnystudio.
Robert Evans recommended Blind Man's Bluff by Baynard Hardwick Kendrick and Command and Control by Eric Schlosser, and 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“And I'm going to quote from Annie Jacobson's book nuclear war here. No one's, and this is after they're going over the plan again to kill 600 million people.”
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Blind Man's Bluff
Blind Man's Bluff by Baynard Hardwick Kendrick is an investigative account of deeply classified United States Navy submarine operations and espionage during the Cold War.
Recommended“There's a book called Blind Man's Bluff that's about like all the stuff that he used to do. And all of his like stories are cuz what US and Soviet subs were doing in this period of time was like basically one would try to like playing chicken trying to force the other to surface”
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Command and Control
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser is an investigative history examining the safety hazards, accidents, and near-misses associated with the American nuclear weapons arsenal.
Recommended“then command and control um among other things talks about a bunch of the different like fuckups and errors that have happened along the way. Um they're all good books.”
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