Daniel Ellsberg: The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of Americas Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that lingers to this day.
Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of Americas nuclear program in the 1960s. From the most remote 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.
