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An expert has issued a stark warning about the threat of nuclear war, claiming that “no matter how it starts, it ends with everyone dead”.
Annie Jacobsen, who has authored several best-selling books on America’s military, including studies of top-secret research lab DARPA and the infamous Area 51, says that in the event of a Russian or Chinese missile launch being detected, the US president would have just six minutes to make a crucial decision.
Do they retaliate – leading inevitably to the deaths of almost the entire world population – or allow one of America's cities to be wiped off the map?
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She told podcaster Lex Fridman the current US doctrine of “launch on warning” means that retaliation would take place before there was time to ask questions about why the initial alert had been triggered.