P. Dutton has just published a startling book by Annie Jacobsen titled Nuclear War: A Scenario. The “scenario,” as she describes it in an Author’s Note, begins with a nuclear strike on the Pentagon, a “Bolt out of the Blue” that the U.S. Nuclear Command and Control System (NCCS) calls an “unwarned large [nuclear] attack.” Annie Jacobsen next identifies 47 people she interviewed for the book—nuclear scientists, people who formerly held NCCS positions, and different U.S. policymakers. They include Dr. Richard L. Garwin (now age 95), the nuclear weapons designer of the first thermonuclear  bomb (Ivy Mike) to undergo a … Continue reading Facing Nuclear War