Nuclear War-A Senario

Fantastic to read but absolutely awful to lose to as an audio book. I don’t know if this is actually read by the author but the delivery sounds like a bad AI attempt to read it. If it is the author reading she needs to give up immediately and never read a book again because her voice is monotonous and plain awful. Apart from the appalling voice, the story and facts are quite chilling and should scare everyone who has never witnessed actual war.
Get the book, absolutely, but save yourself from the audio only version.

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Horrifying - please read or listen!

This is an astounding book which has changed my stance on nuclear weapons. The premise gets over just how dreadful these weapons are. It is an engaging, gripping and terrifying way of dealing with the subject. A must for all politicians and those working in defence or diplomacy. It is obvious how much research has gone into this book and should be commended.

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The sheer waste of life, civilisation and humanity

A sobering listen that I do hope will never come to pass. The sheer madness and waste of war ☮️

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gripping from start to finish

Great insights into US defense processes broken down into easily digested chunks. The narrators voice might not be to everyone's taste. For me this was a book I couldn't stop listening to, start to finish it was excellent.

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There is no way to stop it once it starts

A fearless account of how humanity could fall into the abyss. A superbly researched and well presented weaving of human and technological failings and decision making that could wipe us all out one day

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Completely terrifying…

An outstanding account of what could happen to mankind throughout and in the wake of nuclear war.

With horrifying detail of all aspect of a minute by minute account of what nuclear war would be like this ‘story’ left me feeling completely enlightened to many of the facts that are missed when discussing this scenario in passing.

We are lead to believe that we are somewhat safe but ultimately the end of the world we know could be completely changed in just a few minutes.

Eye opening and gripping from start to finish. Well worth a read! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Unputdownable!

I disagree with some reviewers who found the narration unemotional. I would say it was actually very much filled with the horror of the subject and perfectly presented in a not overly dramatic stylised way. Couldn’t stop with this one until finished. Deeply sobering.

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A book of lists

This could have been a good book. Probably not a great one, but good.
Instead, the effect is of a knowledgeable teenage student trying to hit the word count for a Social Studies essay.
The author relies upon reeling out list upon list when describing every action which occurs in the scenario. This very quickly becomes boring. This is a great pity,because the effort which the author has borne is obvious.

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Wow, I mean, just wow

I hope I never get to experience this! And living through The Cold War, in Germany, as a child—this threat has never really left me. Enter the war in Ukraine, and the growing conflict in the Middle East. This threat I felt, as a child living within the walls of Berlin through the 70s with a sprinkling of carefree abandonment has become a genuine fear as sit here in my 50s, having my own children and grandchildren. Which was why I picked this book up.
I hope the incompetent governments of the West read it.
Khrushchevs words sound louder now than they ever have. “The living will certainly envy the dead.” These uncertain times have an overwhelming sense of foreboding.

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The frightening realization that nuclear war will be the end of civilization

Annie, herself in fine narration, lays out how a single rogue nuclear event will likely lead to all out nuclear acopolypse, due to the lack of proper communication, hair trigger alerts and substandard alert technologies on the part of the Russians. She lays out a frightening scenario in which Russian and the West are devasted and hundreds of millions other will die to. And between the lines, of a world in which the third world, here China, will likely rise to dominate the damaged globe. The explanations are eerily believable and leaves one hoping that someone rational in positions of power will read it and do *something*.

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