Nuclear conflict? Five billion victims
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– What I care about is that my books do not reveal my political views. Because that's not what this is about. I want my readers to learn how dangerous a nuclear conflict can be and what to do to avoid it, says American journalist Annie Jacobsen in an interview with Jacek Tacik.
– North Korea attacks the USA. America responds by striking Korea. An intercontinental ballistic missile must fly over the territory Russia – writes the script by Annie Jacobsen, an American investigative journalist, author of the book “Nuclear War. A Possible Scenario”, published in our country. – And even if we assume that the American president's administration will inform Putin that a missile will fly over the territory of his country, how can he be sure that – in these uncertain times – the Russian leader will believe it? Or that he won't call it a bluff and will use his nuclear arsenal too? – asks Annie Jacobsen.
Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would consider an attack by a non-nuclear-weapon state supported by a nuclear power to be a “joint attack.” This is a change in nuclear doctrine.
But nuclear weapons are also an element of Middle Eastern policy. Iran he's trying to win her over. Israel threatens a retaliatory attack.
Nuclear war – as the author proves – is not just a theory. The world has already stood on the nuclear precipice. It was during the Cold War. – The nuclear war plan prepared by the Americans envisaged a full-scale attack on the Soviet Union and, more broadly, on the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Also to Poland. It was estimated that 600 million people would die, one fifth of the world's population, Jacobsen notes.
Jacek Tacik: Should Israel strike Iranian nuclear installations?
Annie Jacobsen: There are currently nine nuclear states, i.e. those that have nuclear weapons. Iran – at least for now – is outside this group.
It all started with two countries: the United States and the Soviet Union, and today its successor – Russia. I don't think I need to convince anyone that the more nuclear weapons there are around us, the less safe we ​​are, and not the other way around. This means that the more countries have access to nuclear weapons, the greater the chance that it will end in a global nuclear war that will destroy the world.
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