The Six Minute Window #lexfridmanpodcast #clips

was able to get the origin story of that concept from Los Alamos they Declassified it for the book um but the idea behind that is that nuclear war will unfold so fast only one person can be in charge the president he asked permission of no one not the Secretary of Defense not the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff not the US Congress so built into that is this extraordinary speed you talk about the six-minute window and some people say oh that's ridiculous how do we know that six-minute window well here's the best sort of you know hitting the nail on the head statement I can give you which is in President Reagan's Memoirs he refers to this six-minute window and he says he he calls it irrational which it is