This excerpt from the ColdWarComms mailing list gives a good dose of disbelief and skepticism about one outlandish theory
explaining the Roswell "UFO" incident.
Terry W. Colvin
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2a. Re: Nuclear War - A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
From: Christopher Bright
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 13:17:06 PDT
I, too, am skeptical about this book.
My skepticism is traced to an earlier work by the same author, in which she suggested that the Roswell "UFO" incident involved surgically-modified children in a craft dispatched under Stalin's orders to intentionally crash in New Mexico in order to foment panic about extraterrestrials.
https://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2011/07/area51.html#fn4
There are many better books which have extensive discussions of Cold War facilities, nuclear procedures, and NC3, most based upon a large tranche of declassified documents. (the titles of the books often obscure their broader relevance.)
Marc Ambinder, The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983
Garrett M. Graff, Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die
David Krugler, This is only a Test: How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War
Stephen I. Schwartz, Atomic Audit; The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940
Christopher Bright