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100			_aEllsberg, Daniel _eAuthor _976328
245			_aThe Doomsday Machine: _b Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
260			_aNew York : _bBloomsbury, _c2017.
300			_a420 pages; _c 25 cm
520			_a"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."
650			_aNuclear weapons _xHistory _y20th century. _zUnited States _976329
650			_a Nuclear warfare _x Government policy _x History _y20th century. _z United States _976330
650			_aRand Corporation _vBiography. _976331
650			_aCold War.
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