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Every book Annie Jacobsen recommended on podcasts
Books recommended by Annie Jacobsen
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Nuclear War
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen is a terrifying nonfiction exploration that details the precise, rapid countdown sequence and catastrophic chain reaction of a global nuclear exchange.
Discussed“It was like a group of non-partisan senators who wanted to talk to me about the nuclear war book. And that was a different situation. They had read the nuclear war book.”
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The Decameron
Discussed“There's a famous book called The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and an Italian notary and he writes about what it was like at that time and and copies”
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Books Annie Jacobsen wrote
- Biological War
- Area 51
- The Pentagon's Brain
- Imagining Nuclear War in the British Army, 1945-1989
- Nuclear War
- Phenomena
- Surprise, Kill, Vanish
- First Platoon
- Operation paperclip
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2534 - Annie Jacobsen | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2026-07-31 | 1 |
| Something Scary Is Happening In Biolabs - Annie Jacobsen - #1127 | Modern Wisdom | 2026-07-23 | 1 |
Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
Own book Biological War
“My first six books were written in the past tense. Like, you know, the Nazi scientists who came to America, Area 51, um The Pentagon's Brain. The Nuclear War and Biological War are written in the future.”
Own book Area 51
“My first six books were written in the past tense. Like, you know, the Nazi scientists who came to America, Area 51, um The Pentagon's Brain.”
Own book The Pentagon's Brain
“My first six books were written in the past tense. Like, you know, the Nazi scientists who came to America, Area 51, um The Pentagon's Brain.”
“I'm pretty sure that the precipice came out in 2019. Uh so, before COVID and it in order to write the book and to have the research and to be able to get to the stage where Yeah, top left.”
Own book Biological War
“I wrote biological war a scenario, not biological war the only scenario. And in my acknowledgements part of the book, I mention how in some of my interviews”
Own book Nuclear War
“He had read Nuclear War, my book Nuclear War, and I said he said, "Annie, unlike Nuclear War, biological warfare will be deeply nightmarish.”