Poems Gone Nuclear Cover
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Poems Gone Nuclear

Tanya Lund

With POEMS GONE NUCLEAR, I wanted to create a metaphor for what the last couple of years meant for me: moving out of my family home and taking on the world on my own, finding and losing love, struggling with my mental health and coming of age, all whilst trying my best to navigate through life. Inst...

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The Dan Bongino Show

The book details what a nuclear war would actually look like and its effects. The podcast host highlighted its shocking content and the strong reaction it received.

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She's got this book out that's gone nuclear, pun intended.

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The book details what a nuclear war would actually look like and its effects. The podcast host highlighted its shocking content and the strong reaction it received.

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She's got this book out that's gone nuclear, pun intended.

She wrote this book about what nuclear war actually looks like. Not what you think it looks like, not what you saw in Some of All Fears, not what you saw in the Book of Eli, what nuclear war actually looks like.

I began to think, what happens if deterrence fails? That idea of prevention. What happens? And I took that question to the people who advise the president, who work at STRATCOM, who command the nuclear sub forces and learned that it doesn't end well. Not only does it not end well, five billion people are dead at the end of 72 minutes.

And it's like, talk about being behind the veil. No one knows. That's why I think the response to this book, it's been out for three months, has been so extraordinary. And from both sides of the aisle, because people now are beginning to realize if nuclear war begins, it doesn't end until there is a nuclear holocaust.

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