Scariest book I’ve ever read-

If this book does not disturb your view of the world and what humans can do to it within an hour or so, nothing ever will.

I saw an interview with the author and bought the book. Poor writing, lack of citations. Not very compelling or informative. It sort of wanders. Clearly little or no access to the actual people who would be involved in such a scenario.

I downloaded the sample. I thought the sample was well-written and informative NON-FICTION. I bought the book which is shame on me before reading what others have said about the book on military forums I frequent. My father was a career SAC officer and was charged with a wing of B-52’s at his peak. I was a US Marine officer so I have a fair understanding of military matters. When the book slid into the fiction realm I realized this writer had no earthly idea what she was writing about. Nor was she plugged into current operational planning. The USA would not task 5 squadrons or a full 8th of our ICBMS to respond to a single ICBM strike, period. Stop. Not now nor when we had over a thousand of them. It gets worse from there as she had to find a way to drag us into a war with Russia so our ICBMs have to fly over Russia to hit NK…never mind a Trident can hit it from a depressed angle in 14 minutes and using one missile with 6 MIRV warheads takes out NK completely. But let’s not let ACTUAL military knowledge and planning get in a way of a book that was obviously written to be a Netflix movie…which also sucked because they used her “ expertise” Do NOT waste your money. You want a well written book on nuclear war, read Arc Light.

A very solid read that opens up the thought process behind how the government thinks and will treat a nuclear exchange. I learned a lot of interesting information from the book.

This book blew my mind. Not in a good way. Scary stuff. Honestly, this book and those like it should become part of every US Citizens HS education. It’s absolutely INSANE for countries to still have these weapons available.

It was long and very detailed, maybe to much information

Everyone should read this book. We all need to know the horrific truth about nuclear annihilation. God help us all if the situation in the world ever comes down to this .

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

Loved the story! Very thought provoking!