The Doomsday Machine : Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 420pp. Light wear to dw/board edges, previous owner's details top right of front fep; a very good copy. An eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day. Former high-level defence 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 civilisation threatens our very survival. 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. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful - and powerfully important - book about the future of the world.…