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Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy | Lex Fridman Podcast #420

Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy | Lex Fridman Podcast #420

The guest's own work

BookBy the guestISBN verified

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

“author of several amazing books on war weapons government secrecy and National Security including the books titled Area 51 Operation Paperclip the pentagon's brain phenomena surprise kill vanish and her new book nuclear war”— Annie Jacobsen
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

Annie Jacobsen

“author of several amazing books on war weapons government secrecy and National Security including the books titled Area 51 Operation Paperclip the pentagon's brain phenomena surprise kill vanish”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Operation Paperclip

Annie Jacobsen

“the books titled Area 51 Operation Paperclip the pentagon's brain phenomena surprise kill vanish and her new book nuclear war”— Annie Jacobsen
BookBy the guestISBN verified

The Pentagon's Brain

Annie Jacobsen

“the books titled Area 51 Operation Paperclip the pentagon's brain phenomena surprise kill vanish and her new book nuclear war”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis

Annie Jacobsen

“you've written like you said the book phenomena on the secret history of the US government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

Annie Jacobsen

“Billy wall who was my subject of my main my main sort of central figure in a book I wrote about the cia's paramilitary called surprise kill vanish”— Annie Jacobsen
BookBy the guestISBN verified

First Platoon

Annie Jacobsen

“I write about this in my book first platoon which is about a group of young soldiers who goes to Afghanistan and unwittingly becomes part of the defense Department's biome efforts”— Annie Jacobsen

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

BookReferencedISBN verified

The Cold and the Dark: The World After Nuclear War

Carl Sagan

“Carl Sean talked about that in his this amazing book that he wrote with two scientist colleagues called the cold in the dark”— Annie Jacobsen
MediaReferenced

Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan (inferred)

“the Oppenheimer movie really cuz I've reported on nuclear weapons for you know 12 years now and Oppenheimer movie had a very to me positive impact on Los Al's transparency”— Annie Jacobsen