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From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expos? of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--continues to this day.
Bloomsbury USA
December 2017
On Sale: December 5, 2017
432 pages
ISBN: 1608196704
EAN: 9781608196708
Kindle: B074HZMN71
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Here, for the first time, former high level defense
analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking first-hand
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 civilization--and its proposed renewal
under the Trump administration--threatens 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 memoir--a chronicle of madness in which
Ellsberg acknowledges participating--this gripping expose
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 whistleblower. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-
life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful--and
powerfully important--book about not just our country,
but the future of the world.
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