In this week's podcast episode, we meet national security reporter and bestselling author Annie Jacobsen. Her latest book in Swedish, »Kärnvapenkrig«, explores what happens in the critical minutes after a nuclear launch. Drawing from dozens of exclusive interviews with military and civilian experts – including those who built the weapons, devised the response plans, and have been responsible for those decisions should they have needed to be made – she reveals the devastating speed and complexity of nuclear conflict. A nuclear war doesn’t take days or weeks; it unfolds in seconds and minutes.

Is the risk of nuclear war greater now than during the Cold War? Which country poses the greatest threat today? And can we develop strategies to make nuclear war less likely – or is it just a matter of time?

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