Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-12-10

Books mentioned on Part Four: The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All

1 book · With Margaret Killjoy · Listen · Watch on YouTube

ICBMs made it possible to end the world in 15 minutes or less. Robert tells Margaret about the nightmarishly incompetent first draft of the Minuteman, a nuclear weapons system almost perfectly designed to end the world on accident.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Nuclear War

   Annie Jacobsen · at 22:10

   Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen is a non-fiction investigation that details the sequence of events and catastrophic consequences of an unfolding nuclear exchange.

   Discussed

   “In her book, Nuclear War, Annie Jacobson tells a story about a visit a Los Alamos scientist named Harold Agnu paid to a NATO air NATO base in Europe in December of 1959.”

   Robert Evans Part Four: The Men Who Might Have Killed Us All 2025-12-10 Listen at 22:10

   Where to get it

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