--- title: Annie Jacobsen | TIME description: Jacobsen's new book is Nuclear War: A Scenario canonical: https://time.com/author/annie-jacobsen/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/annie-jacobsen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Annie Jacobsen ## Annie Jacobsen Jacobsen's new book is [Nuclear War: A Scenario ](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/748264/nuclear-war-by-annie-jacobsen/) ## Annie Jacobsen *  Apr 11, 2024 ### [Inside the President's Nuclear Football](https://time.com/6965539/u-s-presidents-nuclear-football/) Everywhere the U.S. president goes there's an aide with a briefcase that can start a nuclear war tha... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 3, 2017 ### [The U.S. Military Believes People Have a Sixth Sense](https://time.com/4721715/phenomena-annie-jacobsen/) 'The Pentagon’s focus is to maximize the power for operational use' [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 27, 2015 ### [Inside the Pentagon's Effort to Build a Killer Robot](https://time.com/4078877/darpa-the-pentagons-brain/) The defense program DARPA is working to create an artificial brain—but what will it mean for humanit... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: {"meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"edges":\[\],"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection"},"twitter\_card":null,"\_\_typename":"Seo"} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/annie-jacobsen/","name":"Annie Jacobsen"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/annie-jacobsen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/annie-jacobsen/"},"name":"Annie Jacobsen","jobTitle":"","description":"Jacobsen's new book is Nuclear War: A Scenario","url":"https://time.com/author/annie-jacobsen/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```