Do you ever wonder exactly how the world is going to go to shit? A short break from plasma to recommend two books that changed how I think about that question. Both by Annie Jacobsen: "Nuclear War: A Scenario" and her follow-up "Biological War: A Scenario."

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00:00 A dark question, and a book recommendation

00:12 Plasma and nuclear engineering are often the same department

00:18 Today: Annie Jacobsen's "Nuclear War: A Scenario"

00:28 Her follow-up: "Biological War: A Scenario"

00:35 Not Hollywood. Not conspiracy theory.

00:43 Deep detail, real interviews, real experts

00:49 Some of the names I recognized from scientific literature

00:56 My father was a Soviet-era nuclear physicist. Extra context for me.

01:04 The structure: one "what if" fiction premise, everything else nonfict ...