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Author Ellsberg, Daniel, author.

Title The doomsday machine : confessions of a nuclear war planner / Daniel Ellsberg.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.
©2017

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 Davis Adult Nonfiction  355.0217 ELL    CHECK SHELVES
Description 420 pages ; 25 cm
Content type text txt rdacontent
Format volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-387) and index.
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.-- Adapted from dust jacket.
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.
Subject Ellsberg, Daniel.
Nuclear warfare -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Military planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Military policy -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
ISBN 9781608196708
1608196704