I thought I knew how much trouble we were in, but I was wrong.

Loved the story! Very thought provoking!

A minute - no - second by second accounting on how the world ends. Fantastic read and it’s easy to just keep going. Also, terrifying.

This book is amazing! Although this is a hypothetical scenario, this book is also filled with an abundance of knowledge regarding nuclear warfare and advancements. It might seem like there is a good deal of filler, but I feel that it is needed to add some extra knowledge to the reader about what could and why things in the hypothetical are happening. I recommend this book to anyone interested in what a nuclear warfare might look like in present day.

Read to induce an existential crisis

There are 2 existential threats to humanity. Global warming which will destroy civilization over about three hundred years; and nuclear war which will destroy civilization and life on earth as we know it over a period of about two hours. Both threats seem insurmountable, but both threats are our own doing. So what are you personally going to do about them? That’s what I asked myself after reading this book.

You could cut this book by 75 percent, and get the same result. It is way too repetitive. Didn’t read it for a couple days, picked it up again and thought I already read these pages. What will really happen during a nuclear war? Most Americans will forget the kids, start screwing, taking meth, drinking themselves into oblivion, snort coke, and shoot their neighbors.

Brilliant. Current. Well researched. And, terrifying - we should be better!

This book brings back too many memories from a childhood lived in front line states during the climax of the Cold War at the height of public alarm conveyed through 1980s TV, cinema, and news. A time when we openly talked about Armageddon as a very real possibility. This particular scenario is not as far-fetched as some may think, and the reality of just how fast our world will slam into the bedrock of inevitability when our assumptions about detente, deterrence, and Mutually Assured Destruction fall apart. The people who KNOW what will happen know that the only true way to win is not to play… and they know that if someone f’s around, the only thing we find out is that it will all come to an end.

Terrifically well written and utterly terrifying.