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Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

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Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

In this terrifying extract from Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, the author lays out what would happen in the first seconds after a nuclear missile hits the Pentagon

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Astronaut on strange, rocky alien planet.

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Two brilliant new novels from Adrian Tchaikovsky show his range

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2F7CCFA London, UK. 6 Apr 2021. After a week the wall nears its completion, stretching all the way to Lambeth Bridge - The national Covid Memorial Wall outside St Thomas' Hospital on the southbank. Family and friends of some of the more than one hundred and forty-five thousand people who've lost their lives to Covid-19 are drawing hearts by hand on a wall opposite Parliament in London. Each heart represents someone who was loved. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live News

51�� recommends When the Dust Settles by Lucy Easthope

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Illustration of the human gut microbiota.

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The Immune Mind review: How mental and physical health combine

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2A1MK33 OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA - SEPTEMBER 27, 2019: Thousands of people gather and march towards Parliament Hill as part of a global climate strike protest.

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Everything Must Go review: A fascinating guide to the apocalypse

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The Biology of Kindness review: Living well and prospering

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The Biology of Kindness review: Living well and prospering

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SENSAS in London

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51�� recommends a guide to rebuilding civilisation, The Book

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Deliveroo riders demonstrate to push for improved working conditions, in London, Britain, April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville - RC2ZQM9TH8B5

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Code Dependent: A must-read exploring the human impact of AI

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MPTKBG Trumpets and trumpet tube, Bronze Age (Britain), (c2500 BC-c800 BC). Artist: Unknown.

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Sound Tracks: A fascinating archaeological history of music

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CDF particle detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) near Chicago, USA. The CDF (Collider Detector Facility) records subatomic particles created in high-energy proton-antiproton collisions in the Tevatron coll- ider. It co-discovered the top quark in 1994. Here the detector is partly disassembled between operation runs. The black segments (left) are part of the outer muon chambers. The red areas are part of the magnet which bends charged particles travelling out from the collision point. The blue segments (right) are part of the hadron calorimeter. When in use these parts are closed tightly together. Photographed in 1998. The physicist is ROB ROSER.

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Space Oddities review: A lively insider account of particle physics

CERN scientist Harry Cliff takes us to the heart of developments in cosmology and particle physics in his engaging, accessible guide

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Spaceman review: Adam Sandler is a serious star as a lonely astronaut

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Nuclear War, A scenario review: What if the US faces a first strike?

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Martin MacInnes: 'Science fiction can be many different things'

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Sunken Lands review: Heeding the flood warnings of history

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