Annie Jacobsen
Investigative journalist on war and secrets; Area 51, The Pentagon's Brain, Nuclear War.
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- Annie Jacobsen is an American investigative journalist and author who writes about war, weapons, national security and government secrets.
- The Pentagon's Brain, her history of DARPA, was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
- Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024) reconstructs a hypothetical nuclear exchange minute by minute.
- She also writes and produces television, including Jack Ryan.
Key facts
- Born
- 28 June 19671
- Books
- Area 51 (2011); Operation Paperclip (2014); The Pentagon's Brain (2015); Phenomena (2017); Surprise, Kill, Vanish (2019); First Platoon (2021); Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024); Biological War: A Scenario (2026)1
- Recognition
- Finalist, 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History (The Pentagon's Brain)1
- Television
- Co-wrote three episodes of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan and was a consulting and writing producer on its first two seasons1
- Before
- Contributing editor, Los Angeles Times Magazine, 2009 to 20121
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