[Raellus]

Just finished Annie Jacobsen's, Nuclear War: A Scenario. It's probably the most terrifying thing that I've ever read, any genre. I've read reviews claiming that the scenario presented is far-fetched and unrealistic- I'm not sure that I agree with that, but I think, even if fair, that criticism misses the point of the book. The scenario serves mostly as a means to examine US- and, to a lesser extent, Russian and North Korean- nuclear weapons technology, strategy, operational use, and, scariest of all, effects (short and long-term). In that, the scenario is very successful. Nuclear War is remarkably informative. Once I started reading (yesterday), I had a really hard time putting it down.

My only gripe is the author's writing style can be a little breathless at times. Overwrought. Lots of short, choppy sentences. Repetitive. Mostly for emphasis. (Like the way this paragraph is written.)

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