'Nuclear War: A Scenario,' a wake-up call as prospect of hell-on-earth nightmare looms

Journalist Annie Jacobsen's urgent book war-games extinction itself

Nuclear war, what a nuclear winter would look like

Deep in the warm hurricane of 1980s nostalgia-minded groups on Facebook are the occasional references to fearful school-kid preparation exercises for a forefront haunt to humanity at the time— the night-shaking stalk of the prospect of a world-ending nuclear holocaust.

Remember duck and cover under the ch…