{"product_id":"the-doomsday-machine-confessions-of-a-nuclear-war-planner-9781608196739","title":"The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the legendary Pentagon Papers whistle-blower, an eyewitness exposé of America's Top Secret, seventy-year nuclear policy that continues to this day.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFramed 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, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistle-blower. \u003ci\u003eThe Doomsday Machine\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 1961, Daniel Ellsberg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e a consultant to the White House, drafted Secretary Robert McNamara's plans for nuclear war. Later he leaked the Pentagon Papers. A senior fellow of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, he was the author of \u003ci\u003eSecrets\u003c\/i\u003e and the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary \u003ci\u003eThe Most Dangerous Man\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ein America\u003c\/i\u003e. He was also a key figure in Steven Spielberg's film about the Pentagon Papers, \u003ci\u003eThe Post\u003c\/i\u003e. Through numerous media interviews, he robustly communicated his lifelong concerns about the dangers of nuclear weapons and wars of intervention until his death in 2023.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614350053650,"sku":"9781608196739","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9dc52cb5-7d0e-4ab5-b903-71b8363df0fb.jpg?v=1732440384","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-doomsday-machine-confessions-of-a-nuclear-war-planner-9781608196739","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}