About the author
Annie Jacobsen is an American investigative journalist who writes narrative histories of national-security programs, intelligence agencies, military technology, and government secrecy.
Her books include Area 51, Operation Paperclip, The Pentagon’s Brain, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, and Nuclear War: A Scenario. The last combines reporting on command systems with a hypothetical minute-by-minute escalation.
Where to start
Start with Nuclear War: A Scenario for a concrete account of nuclear command and escalation, or Operation Paperclip for Jacobsen’s history of German scientists brought to the United States.
