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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
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Here, for the first time, former high-level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority to initiate use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the secret plans for general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed, would cause the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilizationand its proposed renewal under the Trump administrationthreatens our very survival. No other insider with high-level access has written so candidly of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era.
Framed as a memoira chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participatingthis gripping exposé reads like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing "doomsday machine" and avoid nuclear catastrophe, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistle-blower.
is thus a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopefuland powerfully importantbook about not just our country, but the future of the world.