Season 4, Episode 4: Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs by Jeffrey Sachs

Jan 21, 202552:18Society & Culture

Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and award-winning journalist Annie Jacobsen as they discuss Jacobsen’s chilling and rigorous depiction of nuclear war in her groundbreaking book, Nuclear War: A Scenario . Wi...

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