
The Doomsday Machine
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Steven Cooper
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Daniel Ellsberg
At the same time former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took the top-secret Pentagon Papers, he also took with him a chilling cache of top secret documents related to America's nuclear program in the 1960s. Here for the first time he reveals the contents of those documents and makes clear their shocking relevance for today.
The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy - and renewal under the Obama administration - threatens the very survival of humanity. It is scarcely possible to estimate the true dangers of our present nuclear policies without penetrating the secret realities of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, when Ellsberg had high-level access to them. No other insider has written so candidly of that long-classified history, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era. Ellsberg's analysis of recent research on nuclear winter shows that even a 'small' nuclear exchange would cause billions of deaths by global nuclear famine. Ellsberg, in the end, offers steps we can take under a new administration to avoid nuclear catastrophe.
Framed as a memoir, this thriller with cloak-and-dagger intrigue places Ellsberg back in his natural role as whistle-blower. It is a real-life Dr. Strangelove story but an ultimately hopeful - and powerfully important - audiobook.
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This book actually gives me hope. If more Americans read this, they will see that there IS a path to eliminating nuclear weapons that isn’t nieve—and in fact an urgent imperative is our species is to survive.
Every American should read
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An Unbelievable Truth
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Urgent for you to Read !
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Another warning
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Let’s stop the end of the world
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Speechless.
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But the most startling information are the number of people who will die with one
bomb. These numbers are in the millions. But equally terrible is the impact explosion of a hydrogen bond will have a profound impact on the atmosphere. The more explosions, the more the more likely that we may block out the sun and end life on earth as we now now it.
My only criticism is that the book is written in the first person.
A must read for all of us
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disturbing listener beware you may lose sleep
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