The Resource The doomsday machine : confessions of a nuclear war planner, Daniel Ellsberg
The doomsday machine : confessions of a nuclear war planner, Daniel Ellsberg
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- The former defense analyst who revealed the Pentagon Papers offers an eyewitness account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s and reveals the dangers in the country's seventy-year-long nuclear policy
- "From the legendary whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expose of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--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 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."--Dust jacket flap
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 420 pages
- Contents
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- Part I: The Bomb and I. How could I? : the making of a nuclear war planner ; Command and control : managing catastrophe ; Delegation : how many fingers on the button? ; Iwakuni : nuclear weapons off the books ; The Pacific Command ; The war plan: reading the JSCP ; Briefing Bundy ; "My" war plan ; Questions for the Joint Chiefs : how many will die? ; Berlin and the missile gap ; A tale of two speeches ; My Cuban missile crisis ; Cuba : the real story
- Part II: The road to doomsday. Bombing cities ; Burning cities ; Killing a nation ; Risking doomsday I: Atmospheric ignition ; Risking doomsday II: The Hell Bomb ; The Strangelove paradox ; First-use threats: using our nuclear weapons ; Dismantling the Doomsday Machine
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- Isbn
- 9781608196708
- Label
- The doomsday machine : confessions of a nuclear war planner
- Title
- The doomsday machine
- Title remainder
- confessions of a nuclear war planner
- Statement of responsibility
- Daniel Ellsberg
- Subject
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- Ellsberg, Daniel
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- History
- Military planning
- Military planning -- United States -- History
- Military planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Military policy -- United States
- Nuclear warfare -- Government policy
- Biography
- Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy
- Twentieth century
- United States
- United States -- Military policy | History -- 20th century
- United States -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- Nuclear warfare -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Ellsberg, Daniel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- The former defense analyst who revealed the Pentagon Papers offers an eyewitness account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s and reveals the dangers in the country's seventy-year-long nuclear policy
- "From the legendary whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expose of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that--chillingly--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 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."--Dust jacket flap
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- PNX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ellsberg, Daniel
- Dewey number
- 355.02/170973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- UA23
- LC item number
- .E45 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ellsberg, Daniel
- Ellsberg, Daniel
- Nuclear warfare
- Nuclear weapons
- Military planning
- United States
- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- Nuclear warfare
- United States
- History
- Twentieth century
- Military planning
- Biography
- Military policy
- Military planning
- Label
- The doomsday machine : confessions of a nuclear war planner, Daniel Ellsberg
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-387) and index
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- Contents
- Part I: The Bomb and I. How could I? : the making of a nuclear war planner ; Command and control : managing catastrophe ; Delegation : how many fingers on the button? ; Iwakuni : nuclear weapons off the books ; The Pacific Command ; The war plan: reading the JSCP ; Briefing Bundy ; "My" war plan ; Questions for the Joint Chiefs : how many will die? ; Berlin and the missile gap ; A tale of two speeches ; My Cuban missile crisis ; Cuba : the real story -- Part II: The road to doomsday. Bombing cities ; Burning cities ; Killing a nation ; Risking doomsday I: Atmospheric ignition ; Risking doomsday II: The Hell Bomb ; The Strangelove paradox ; First-use threats: using our nuclear weapons ; Dismantling the Doomsday Machine -- Glossary
- Control code
- on1012402660
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 420 pages
- Isbn
- 9781608196708
- Media category
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- System control number
- (OCoLC)1012402660
- Label
- The doomsday machine : confessions of a nuclear war planner, Daniel Ellsberg
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-387) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
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- text
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- Contents
- Part I: The Bomb and I. How could I? : the making of a nuclear war planner ; Command and control : managing catastrophe ; Delegation : how many fingers on the button? ; Iwakuni : nuclear weapons off the books ; The Pacific Command ; The war plan: reading the JSCP ; Briefing Bundy ; "My" war plan ; Questions for the Joint Chiefs : how many will die? ; Berlin and the missile gap ; A tale of two speeches ; My Cuban missile crisis ; Cuba : the real story -- Part II: The road to doomsday. Bombing cities ; Burning cities ; Killing a nation ; Risking doomsday I: Atmospheric ignition ; Risking doomsday II: The Hell Bomb ; The Strangelove paradox ; First-use threats: using our nuclear weapons ; Dismantling the Doomsday Machine -- Glossary
- Control code
- on1012402660
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 420 pages
- Isbn
- 9781608196708
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1012402660
Subject
- Ellsberg, Daniel
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- History
- Military planning
- Military planning -- United States -- History
- Military planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Military policy -- United States
- Nuclear warfare -- Government policy
- Biography
- Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy
- Twentieth century
- United States
- United States -- Military policy | History -- 20th century
- United States -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- Nuclear warfare -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Ellsberg, Daniel
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