In essence, she believes that in a matter of hours, hundreds of millions of people will be killed by WMDs that would be shot off left and right. Jacobsen describes how civilization as we know.
It would be destroyed in a span of under seventy-two minutes in Nuclear War: A Scenario. He also provides a minute-by-minute description of what Armageddon may look like.
This is obviously only the journalist’s idea, but because it’s based on her extensive study on this particular topic, she’s most likely made a reasonable estimate.
Jacobsen clarified in his interview with Politico last year: “A ballistic missile travels from a launchpad in Russia to the U.S. East Coast in 26 minutes and 40 seconds.
That is still the case now, as it was when [nuclear physicist and former Pentagon scientist] Herb York had the study done for the first time in 1959–60. “The laws of gravity have not been altered by ballistic missile technology.
That is still the window to launch to your goal, regardless of what you do. Since Pyongyang is somewhat different geographically, it takes 33 minutes.
