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1. www.nytimes.com › 2017/12/28 › booksIs Nuclear War Inevitable? - The New York Times

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   Dec 28, 2017 · “The Doomsday Machine” concludes with a passionate call for nuclear risk-reduction measures, including taking the weapons off hair-trigger alert and declaring a policy of “no-first-use.”

2. cannonballread.com › 2016 › 06Book Club Discussion Post: Doomsday Book - Cannonball Read 16

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   Jun 1, 2016 · Welcome to our June Book Discussion of Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. It looks like lots of you have read this book and are ready to chat about it with your fellow readers. I’ve been looking forward to having this discussion since I finished the book.

3. www.goodreads.com › topic › showTime Travel - Archive Book Club Discussions: DOOMSDAY BOOK ...

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   Jun 1, 2013 · This month's group read winner is Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Connie has written several time travel novels and indeed, this is the first time we will have read two time travel books from the same author in our monthly group reads. The first was To Say Nothing of the Dog, read way back in December 2011.

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   Nov 17, 2020 · In this illustrated guide, How Stuff Works author Marshall Brain explores myriad doomsday scenarios and the science behind them. What if the unimaginable happens? A nuclear bomb detonates over a major city, for example, or a deadly virus infects millions around the world.

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6. www.amazon.com › Doomsday-Machine-ConfessionsThe Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

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   Dec 5, 2017 · 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, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistle-blower.

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   • Author: Daniel Ellsberg

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   • Brand: Bloomsbury USA

7. charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com › 2010 › 07The Doomsday Book, for Timeslip Tuesday, plus what ... - Blogger

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   Jul 20, 2010 · The Doomsday Book, for Timeslip Tuesday, plus what I mean by "time travel as plot device" In a comment on my last Timeslip Tuesday (Once a Witch), a faithful reader (thanks faithful reader!) wrote: "I'm curious as to what in your mind is the paradigm of time travel stories.

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   Is the Doomsday Machine a good book?

   • The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner is strongest as a portrait of the slow corruption of America’s national security state by layer upon layer of secrecy. Ellsberg’s book, which fills an important void by providing firsthand testimony about the nuclear insanity that gripped a generation of policymakers, is ultimately hopeful--and powerfully important--about the future of the world. It should be widely read and its claims should be examined by experts, corroborated, rebutted, taken up by Congressional committees (alas, unlikely), and generally forced into public consciousness. The Doomsday Machine is engrossing and frightening according to Peter Steinfels, America Magazine.

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   What is the Doomsday Machine?

   • Each week, top authors and critics join the Book Review’s podcast to talk about the latest news in the literary world. Listen here. Daniel Ellsberg’s “The Doomsday Machine” is a passionate call for reducing the risk of total destruction.

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   Is 'The Doomsday Machine' a true story?

   • The Doomsday Machine is a real-life Dr. Strangelove story. It is ultimately hopeful--and powerfully important--about our country and the future of the world. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.

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   Is Doomsday Men based on a true story?

   • However, P.D. Smith’s Doomsday Men, available in the UK and due for stateside publication in December, tells the story of the real Doomsday device — and it’s […] The Soviet doomsday device -- a giant cobalt bomb rigged to explode were Russia ever nuked, rendering the earth's surface uninhabitable -- gained fictional fame in Dr. Strangelove.

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   Is 'The Doomsday Machine' a bildungsroman?

   • The Doomsday Machine is a tale of one intellectual’s disillusionment with the country in which Ellsberg had placed so much trust, making it a bildungsroman.

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   What if the world is nuked by a Cold War doomsday device?

   • After all, if the world is nuked by a Cold War doomsday device because some Islamic fundamentalist group hits Russia with dirty bombs, it'll be a fetid mix of religious and secular madness that does us in, each happy to use the tools that scientists have provided.

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   Sep 7, 2007 · The Soviet doomsday device -- a giant cobalt bomb rigged to explode were Russia ever nuked, rendering the earth's surface uninhabitable -- gained fictional fame in Dr. Strangelove.