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The Doomsday Machine; Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
by Ellsberg, Daniel
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- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 1608196704
- ISBN 13
- 9781608196708
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About This Item
New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Mark Constantini (Author photograph). [10], 420, [2] pages. Glossary. Notes. Index. Some damp stains and rubbing at bottom portion of the book. DJ has some wear and staining on the inside. Cover worn and stained. Text unaffected. Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is an American political activist, and former United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspapers. On January 3, 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. Because of governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering, and the defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. dismissed all charges against Ellsberg on May 11, 1973. Ellsberg was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. He is also known for having formulated an important example in decision theory, the Ellsberg paradox; for his extensive studies on nuclear weapons and nuclear policy; and for having voiced support for WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden. Ellsberg was awarded the 2018 Olof Palme Prize for his "profound humanism and exceptional moral courage. From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day. 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 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 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. 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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- Ground Zero Books (US)
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- Title
- The Doomsday Machine; Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
- Author
- Ellsberg, Daniel
- Illustrator
- Mark Constantini (Author photograph)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 1608196704
- ISBN 13
- 9781608196708
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Pentagon Papers, Command and Control, Nuclear Weapons, Iwakuni, War Plan, Joint Chiefs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Atmospheric Ignition, Doomsday Machine, Atomic Bomb, Cold War, First Strike, H-bombs, Curtis LeMay, RAND Corporation, Strategic Air Command
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