Annie Jacobsen
@AnnieJacobsen
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Bestselling author & Pulitzer Prize finalist AREA 51; PAPERCLIP; PENTAGON'S BRAIN; PHENOMENA; SURPRISE, KILL, VANISH; 1ST PLATOON. TV write/prod JACK RYAN etc
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💥💥NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO out now (!!)💥💥
Nuclear war is insane. So are nuclear threats. Read the book. Join the conversation—while we can all still have one.
My new book, coming soon, guaranteed to terrify:
"This is a once-in-a-generation look at an urgent threat and Jacobsen's in-depth, up-to-the-minute reporting lays bare the technologies, safeguards, plans, and risks we face at this current moment in history."
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Lex Fridman is one of the most interesting thinkers today.
I hope you enjoy the 3 hour podcast we did
@lexfridman
discussing NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO (and a whole lot more).
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The reach of *new media* is astounding. So is
@lexfridman
fan base.
1.4 million views on YouTube, 5 days.
Just — wow.
Here's my conversation with Annie Jacobsen (
@anniejacobsen
) all about nuclear war, CIA, Area 51, UFOs, and government secrecy. This was a terrifying and fascinating conversation.
It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment.
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My new book, coming soon, guaranteed to terrify:
"This is a once-in-a-generation look at an urgent threat and Jacobsen's in-depth, up-to-the-minute reporting lays bare the technologies, safeguards, plans, and risks we face at this current moment in history."
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A brief history of OPERATION PAPERCLIP...(ongoing🧵)
Operation Paperclip was created to prevent (or win) Nuclear, Biological, Chemical World War III.
Starting in May 1945, more than 1,600 Nazi scientists were brought to America to continue their weapons work for the U.S.
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Rest In Peace Ben Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg prosecutor, dead at 103.
At age 27, Ferencz prosecuted what would become known as the largest murder case in history, the case against the Nazi mobile killing units known as Einsatzgruppen.
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Follow me on Instagram.
Cool photos & stories from my books.
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Taliban to
@AP
: public executions will return, so will amputations as punishment for defying religious law.
“Cutting off of hands is very necessary for security."
“No one will tell us what our laws should be."
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🔥I am a massive Denis Villeneuve film fan so it's amazing to finally share this news.
"Legendary, ‘Dune’ Helmer Denis Villeneuve Re-Team On ‘Nuclear War: A Scenario’"
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🔥🔥🔥VERY soon I will be able to reveal my new book's terrifying subject matter, and its pub date.
As of today, it's even scarier than it was before.
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I’ve written 5 books on national security, covering every President since Truman. This is the most reckless thing I’ve ever read written by a US President.
“Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”
—President Trump
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Very cool podcast coming soon...
Greetings from Tennessee.
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This image👇 taken 5.7.22 by NASA on Mars + news of House hearings on UFOs are sure to spawn a few new theories...
Sol 3466: Mast Camera (Mastcam) – NASA Mars Exploration
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"Dassault, 69, was the eldest son of French billionaire industrialist Serge Dassault, whose group builds the Rafale war planes and owns Le Figaro newspaper."
French billionaire politician Olivier Dassault killed in helicopter crash
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My newest book: "FIRST PLATOON: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance."
Coming January 12th.
If you have nothing to hide, do you have nothing to fear?
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Just signed 12 books at Barnes & Noble at The Grove, Los Angeles
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I've written 6 books about military and intelligence programs designed to prevent Nuclear World War III...
So—what happens if deterrence fails?
NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO — coming March 2024
Pre-order
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A brief history of AREA 51...(an ongoing 🧵)
Area 51 was created to prevent Nuclear World War III.
The classified base opened in 1955 after two CIA officers, Herbert Miller (the Agency's top expert on Soviet nuclear weapons), and Richard Bissell (Special Assistant to the
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Now is when foreign dictators and bad actors begin making big moves because they realize there’s no one at the White House paying attention.
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#420
– Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy - Lex Fridman Podcast | Podcast on Spotify
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What it's like to go in search of Nazi docs, in Germany.
Research trip for OPERATION PAPERCLIP.
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This article, on counter-biometrics, is shockingly good.
"A manufactured silicon hand sleeve, used to evade fingerprinting and to create fake identities..."
Exclusive: Inside the military's secret army, the largest undercover force ever
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This clip👇has 43 MILLION views on YouTube — that’s a lot of views for someone who isn’t a rapper or Taylor Swift.
Read OPERATION PAPERCLIP.
What it's like to go in search of Nazi docs, in Germany.
Research trip for OPERATION PAPERCLIP.
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Me and my pal Tom O'Neill—author of "CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties" (w/Dan Piepenbring)—spinning through some conspiracies in my garden.
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If you’re freaked out by what AI is capable of, just wait until you learn about SynBio (synthetic biology).
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CIA psychics and spies keep strange bed-fellows. Here's Uri Geller with Hitler's favorite rocket scientist-turned NASA's favorite rocket scientist— Wernher von Braun.
Follow me on Insta: cool stories from my books
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WATCH THIS WITH THE SOUND UP.
.
@AnnieJacobsen
: Nuclear War - Monday March 11th. You're not going to want to miss this.
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Shudder to think about what’s going on underwater right now.
All those nuclear-powered, SLBM-capable submarines moving into position, on both sides. Nuclear chicken.
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World War III: test/preparations, March 1, 1954, Bikini Atoll.
The Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb was 15 megatons. A runaway nuke that utterly terrified the scientists & engineers who created it.
I begin THE PENTAGON'S BRAIN with eyewitness accounts from EG&G weapons engineers.
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This 👇is an AREA 51 badge from SIGMA-4 (S-4). It belonged to Jim Freedman, EG&G.
Freedman witnessed many things including the Castle Bravo nuclear test; I report that insanity in THE PENTAGON'S BRAIN.
Freedman was not my AREA 51 source, but knew him well and validated info.
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Adversary Drones Are Spying On The U.S. And The Pentagon Acts Like They're UFOs
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In case you missed it.
And yes, I tell Lex who my AREA 51 source was in this interview.
The source taught me a lot about nuclear weapons, and he helped me get cleared to visit the Nevada Test Site—to see the nuclear bomb craters close up.
Read NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO.
Here's my conversation with Annie Jacobsen (
@anniejacobsen
) all about nuclear war, CIA, Area 51, UFOs, and government secrecy. This was a terrifying and fascinating conversation.
It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment.
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NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO—The New York Times bestseller.
Nuclear war is insane. Read the book. Join the conversation, while we can all still have one.
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The indomitable Billy Waugh has died.
Rest in Peace my friend.
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‘Dune’ Director Denis Villeneuve Reteams With Legendary on ‘Nuclear War: A Scenario’
The feature is based on Annie Jacobsen’s instant bestseller of the same name.
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aliens
Trump says he'll be announcing "many exciting things" over the next 8 weeks, "things that nobody has even contemplated, thought about, thought possible," with"levels of detail" and "levels of thought that a lot of people believed very strongly we didn't have in this country"
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US spent 10+ yrs promoting "Rule of Law in Afghanistan," a failed plan to build western-style law enforcement, courts, & prisons across Afghanistan.
Biometrics were to be the centerpiece.
What FIRST PLATOON soldiers *fought* and died for.
Now Taliban is cutting off hands.
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A-12 Oxcart out at Area 51 — sure looked like a UFO.
So many UFO reports came in that
@CIA
opened its own UFO disinformation office, as per declassified
@USNatArchives
docs, which I write about in:
"AREA 51: An Uncensored HIstory of America's Top Secret Military Facility."
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Regarding UFOs and UAPs—and who REALLY knows.
💥👽💥👁️💥🚀💥🛸
I'm putting my money on NRO.
Classified budget far exceeds everyone else's.
Work force clearance levels far exceed everyone else's.
No one even knew it existed for 32+ yrs
Motto: Supra Et Ultra (Above And Beyond)
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Giving away 15 copies-starting now💥
Goodreads giveaway! From nuclear launch to nuclear winter: enter now for a chance to win the riveting second-by-second account of what could come.
NUCLEAR WAR by
@AnnieJacobsen
comes out March 26th.
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A word of gratitude to everyone who continues to read my books — voraciously; 2 of 6 of them are presently in Amazon's Top 100 (audio) books. (!!)
Also, the readers' reviews keep coming in, which I read, so thank you. All criticisms noted; all errata fixed in next editions.
Follow me on Instagram.
Cool photos & stories from my books.
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Be very suspicious of regimes that destroy books.
russians are throwing away Ukrainian books from the Pryazovskyi state university in Mariupol. Some are dumped right from the window. russia is systemically destroying all things Ukraine in the occupied towns. Great russian culture is erazing our identity
Photo: P.Andryushchenko
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The Doomsday Plane on the move👇.
Launches nuclear weapons from the air after ground facilities are destroyed.
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And there you have it.
JUST IN: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the country can 'absolutely' afford another war.
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My grandfather’s Purple Heart from WWII — he fought Nazis.
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#4
— NYT Bestseller List (!!)
NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO—The New York Times bestseller.
Nuclear war is insane. Read the book. Join the conversation, while we can all still have one.
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A year ago I spent 3 hrs talking with the endlessly curious and very entertaining
@joerogan
👇
Joe Rogan Annie Jacobsen
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Asteroid 2023 BU—first discovered just days ago—will almost hit Earth tomorrow.
“…the cosmic object will fly by Earth at a distance of fewer than 10,000 kilometers—roughly 25% closer than geostationary satellites put into orbit by humans…”
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Raining so hard in Los Angeles, it’s too loud to sleep.
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Check out the SURPRISE, KILL, VANISH video trailer!!
SURPRISE, KILL, VANISH by Annie Jacobsen via
@YouTube
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If something is a threat—to the degree that it needs to be shot down by a US fighter aircraft (!!)—it is meant to happen before the aircraft enters US airspace.
4 x consecutive incursions into US airspace makes the Pentagon + NORAD appear weak — and/or incompetent.
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“It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”—Col. Tucker Hamilton (Chief of AI Test & Operations)
Air Force artificial intelligence drone kills operator in simulation
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PHENOMENA is about scientists & psychics w/ top-secret clearances. About the govt's interest in anomalous mental phenomena: extra-sensory perception (ESP), psychokinesis (PK), map dowsing, & other forms of divination—disciplines the scientific community rejects as pseudoscience👇
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Hi
@jockowillink
with the passing of the indomitable Billy Waugh, I'd like to take you up on your open invite to come on your podcast.
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NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO by Annie Jacobsen
Cover of The New York Times Book Review, April 14.
NYT Bestsellers List
#4
, this week.
Nuclear War is insane. Read or listen to the book. Join the conversation, while we can all still have one.
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Biohybrids: coupling animal and machine.
DARPA scientists rebuilt the entire tissue system of the Manduca sexta moth during metamorphic development.
THE PENTAGON'S BRAIN
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Read history. It closes the mouth and opens the mind.
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Last revisions on my new manuscript due in 12 days.
Excited.
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Podcast drop: Danny Jones
@KONCRETE
and I discuss the Pentagon's terrifying NUCLEAR WAR scenarios (& much more) in the first, hours-long podcast interview for my new book.
NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO—coming March 26, 2024 Pre-order
@JonesDanny
Podcast on
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I don't normally post personal things on Twitter but long term marriage is a beautiful thing to celebrate:
Church door wedding kiss, July 6, 1996.
Happy 25th wedding anniversary to the one and only Kevin Jacobsen.
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"A remarkable achievement of investigative reporting and historical writing." —The Boston Globe
"How Dr. Strangelove came to America and thrived, told in graphic detail." —Kirkus Reviews
"A deeply disturbing exposé." —Booklist
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Here at Mammoth Mtn, I’m skiing alongside Marines training to fight *the enemy* on skis.
Some units will soon be heading to Norway & Finland.
Desert Warfare out; Winter Warfare in.
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I am grateful to everyone who reads my books. Thank you, and happy Thanksgiving.
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Signed books
@BookSoup
booth recommended by bookseller Dan(!!)
LA Times Festival of Books
12p panel today: Operation Barbenheimer
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Newest draft👇of my forthcoming book — the one that terrifies even me.
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My prediction:
After 9/11, DHS was born.
After Covid-19 pandemic, DBS will be born.
The U.S. Department of Biomedical Security (a version thereof).
It will include individual tagging, tracking & mass predicting technologies, many of which are already in place.
Stay tuned.
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Intact extraterrestrial vehicle or black propaganda hoax?
Read AREA 51
“Jaw-dropping.” — USA Today
“Journalist Annie Jacobsen has shocked even the most devoted conspiracy theorists.” — Time Magazine
“Compellingly hard-hitting.” — New York Times
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A reader wrote asking to buy OPERATION PAPERCLIP w/o the swastika.
"I do not want to buy a book with a swastika on it."
The European/German cover art is different because the image is outlawed in Germany.
Paperclip is in its 11th US printing. Should the cover art change?
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Governments have been shooting down one another's aircrafts and *objects* (and the pilots piloting them) since balloons started flying.
Shown here is one of the CIA's Top Secret U-2s, as seen through a window of the Skunkworks *shuttle* —out at AREA 51, in the 1950s.
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"What in heck is going on?" —Ray Bradbury
In 1974, author Ray Bradbury was asked, “What is space travel going to do for man?” In response, he gave the most mystical, mind-blowing, and strangely moving answer I could have imagined.
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🔥🔥And in case you missed it:
Legendary Entertainment and ‘Dune’ Helmer Denis Villeneuve Re-Team On ‘Nuclear War: A Scenario’
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This clip👇has 31 MILLION views on YouTube — that’s a lot of views for someone who isn’t a rapper.
Read OPERATION PAPERCLIP.
What it's like to go in search of Nazi docs, in Germany.
Research trip for OPERATION PAPERCLIP.
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My new author photo, thanks to Hilary Jones (again).
If you are in Los Angeles and need your photograph taken:
@Hilamey
is stellar. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pre-order NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO (no💰 til pub)
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In Brussels🇧🇪for the
#NukeEXPO
, a science expo on Nuclear Weapons, Risks, and Humanitarian Impacts sponsored by:
-International Committee of the Red Cross
@ICRC
-Norwegian Red Cross
@rodekorsnorge
-Belgian Red Cross
@CroixRougeBE
-Norwegian People's Aid
@NPAdisarm
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Doing revisions on my newest book and the pile is even bigger now.
To every writer out there working hard, keep at it.
“It’s never crowded on the extra mile.”
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Craziest mass gun theft, cover-up + corruption story in a while👇
@LAcrimes
Police officer(s) steal guns from LAPD to ostensibly sell to criminals, then LA district attorney lets ringleader off with only probation, not 14 years.
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The mysterious (disappearing) UFO on a US Intelligence Agency’s Logo🛸💥👇
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Eisenhower created America's highways with nuclear war in mind.*
Not only could highways facilitate large-scale evacuation of cities in a NUCLEAR WAR, but the broad, flat interstate lanes could be used as runways for takeoff and landings on bombing runs.
Today, the Finnish
The Finnish Air Force’s agile combat employment concept includes the use of highway strips also in winter conditions. During exercise
#Hanki24
, the F/A-18 Hornets operating from Tikkakoski Air Base take off from a strip of Highway 4 adjacent to the base.
#ilmavoimat
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NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO
-NYT Bestsellers List
-Amazon Charts Top 20 Most Sold
-Sunday Times Bestseller List, UK
-Los Angeles Times Bestseller List
-Indie Bestsellers
Nuclear War is insane. Read the book. Join the conversation while we can still have one
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Terrifying reminder:
US keeps ~50 nuclear weapons in Turkey.
500 Air Force personnel secure these nukes.
Erdogan: thousands of Hamas who broke through billion-dollar security system, murdered 1,400 & kidnapped 200+ were doing patriot duty.
Time to get US nukes out of Turkey
BREAKING — Erdogan says Hamas isn’t a terror group but patriotic organisation that defends its territories and people.
• “They are the warriors (mujahids)” he says. “We aren’t indebted to Israel. But the West is.”
• “I won’t visit Israel”
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“DNA…it’s codes within codes within codes. If you ever wanted to believe in God, just look inside the cell.”
I loved interviewing Stanford Lab + cell biologist
@GarryPNolan
for PHENOMENA.
This👇👽is fascinating.
Garry Nolan:| Lex Fridman Podcast
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OPERATION PAPERCLIP by Annie Jacobsen
“A remarkable achievement of investigative reporting and historical writing, but it is a moral force as well as a literary tour de force. It reminds us, unforgettably, about the wages of war — and the price of victory.”
— The Boston Globe
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Very excited to say that shortly I will be able to post the cover of my newest book, and info...
This is wild: original pub date was June 1, 2021; my publisher has speed up its arrival to January 12th.
Never have I written a book with so many stunning, real-time plot twists.
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