New Scientist Book Club

Welcome to the New Scientist Book Club, a place to find out about the very best new science and science fiction books out there, and to talk about them with your fellow book lovers. Discover extraordinary new reads by the best new voices, as well as old classics by renowned sci-fi authors. We’ll also be bringing you our authors’ own favourite reads, along with video interviews and extracts.

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Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

Why we're reading this: This is described by its publisher as a “non-fiction thriller”; it imagines what would happen if a rogue …more
[close] This is described by its publisher as a “non-fiction thriller”; it imagines what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the Pentagon. Sounds like fiction, right? Not exactly. Jacobsen, a Pulitzer finalist, has interviewed dozens of military and civilian experts about how this would play out, and this is billed as “the only account of what a nuclear exchange would look like”.

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