American journalist and writer Annie Jacobsen described one of the possible scenarios of nuclear war.
What is known about the probable scenario of nuclear war
According to the journalists of the publication with reference to Jacobsen's book "Nuclear War: The Scenario", the writer pays attention to nuclear arsenals, systems and doctrines of using nuclear weapons.
In her opinion, humanity ignores all these facts, despite all their monstrosity.
In particular, Jakobsen suggests that the DPRK, in conditions of conviction of an attack on it, may launch an unexpected nuclear attack on the United States.
In response, the US can launch a volley of 50 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles at North Korea, aimed at weapons facilities and command centers of the DPRK.
However, before that, the missiles must fly over the territory of Russia.
Fully aware of the danger of miscalculation, the US president tries to contact his Russian counterpart. But the two men and the countries they rule don't get along, and he fails. To make matters worse, the cunning Russian Tundra early warning satellite system exaggerated the scale of the American salvo, and from his Siberian bunker the Russian president is giving the order for a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States, — the journalists of the publication quote Jacobsen's book.
Why it will be impossible to stop a nuclear war if it starts
Separately, the writer emphasizes in the book that the US president would have had a few minutes to make a decision if American early warning systems signaled an impending attack.
After all, only presidents can make a decision, and once it is made, no one has the right to block it. It's called one-man rule, and it's almost certainly the scariest fact in the world today. This means that each of a handful of people is capable of destroying the world in a few minutes without consulting anyone, Jacobsen warns in his own book.
