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Annie Jacobsen
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in Middletown, Connecticut, The United States
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Just keep writing. The story comes. Bad drafts are part of the experience. If you keep writing, they become good drafts.
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
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2024
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10 editions
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
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2011
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28 editions
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
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2014
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18 editions
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
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2019
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18 editions
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The Pentagon's Brain
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2015
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22 editions
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Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
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2017
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12 editions
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First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
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2021
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6 editions
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Terror in the Skies: Why 9/11 Could Happen Again
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2005
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish -- Coming May 14, 2019
My new book's main character is the indomitable Billy Waugh, a CIA legend (60+years) and former U.S. Army Green Beret.
He's one of 42 sources who sat with me for hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews, including two surviving members of the OSS; eight individuals who served the CIA at the Senior Intelligence Service (SIS) level; eleven chiefs of station from countries on five continents; numero Read more of this blog post »
He's one of 42 sources who sat with me for hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews, including two surviving members of the OSS; eight individuals who served the CIA at the Senior Intelligence Service (SIS) level; eleven chiefs of station from countries on five continents; numero Read more of this blog post »
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"This was an absolutely terrifying book to read. This was my fourth book from Annie Jacobsen, she is a fantastic journalist and writes excellent history books.
In Nuclear War she tackles what would happen to the world if a nuclear war broke out and the" Read more of this review » |
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I have to admit to harbouring some serious doubts about requesting this particular title, but in the end, the desire to know what would happen behind the scenes, got the better of me. Based on interviews with both military and civilian expe" Read more of this review » |
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"QUICK TAKE: here's what you need to know: THIS IS THE SCARIEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ IN MY ENTIRE LIFE AND I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT IT EVERY NIGHT SINCE I READ IT A FEW MONTHS AGO. YOU WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AFTER YOU READ THIS. GOOD LUCK."
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This book terrified me—and I wrote it. As an investigative journalist, I've previously written 6 books about military and intelligence programs designed to prevent, or deter, Nuclear World War III. Along the way, I've often wondered: what would happe ...more |
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“We still don’t have a clue about what’s going on in the human brain. We have theories; we just don’t know for sure. We can’t build an electrical circuit, digital or analogue or other, that mimics the biological system. We can’t emulate the behavior. One day in the future, we think we can.”
― The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
― The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
“By contrast, Dresher and Flood found that the minority of game players who refused to testify against their criminal partner were almost always of the liberal persuasion. These individuals were willing to put themselves at risk in order to get the best possible outcome for both themselves and a colleague—just a single year’s jail time.”
― The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
― The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
“The Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2007 (H.R. 2560) did not pass. So the Defense Department could be cloning now.”
― The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
― The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
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