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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.”

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3. carnegieendowment.org › posts › 2018‘The Doomsday Machine’: Daniel Ellsberg’s Riveting Memoir ...

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   Feb 8, 2018 · A treasure of finely woven secrets and insights lies in Daniel Ellsberg’s new memoir, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. Their importance grows each day that the nuclear stand-offs on the Korean Peninsula, in South Asia and between the United States and Russia go unabated.

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   Jan 5, 2018 · Although Daniel Ellsberg eventually found fame in 1971 for leaking the Pentagon Papers, a secret history of decision-making on Vietnam, he made his name as a super-smart young analyst working...

5. www.nybooks.com › articles › 2018/01/18The Nuclear Worrier - The New York Review of Books

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   Jan 18, 2018 · In his new memoir, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, the second about the big things that obsessed Ellsberg in his youth, 1 he does not try to explain why he set aside worry about the bomb to tackle America’s hopeless war in Southeast Asia, then in its sixth year. The probable answer is that he had gone to see it.

6. www.berkeleyside.org › 2017/12/28 › book-reviewBook review: Daniel Ellsberg’s ‘The Doomsday Machine’

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   Dec 28, 2017 · The Doomsday Machine is alive and well. In fact, Ellsberg reveals, that level of delegation of control to military officers in the field has been the case throughout the sixty-year history of the nuclear standoff between the U.S. and Russia.

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   Feb 13, 2018 · Before he became famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg was a bright analyst at the RAND Corporation who worked on some of the most perplexing problems in U.S. national security. This candid and chilling memoir describes how he came to recognize that the U.S. military’s approach to preparing for nuclear war was terrifyingly casual.

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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.

   The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

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   Why is it called a 'doomsday machine'?

   • Its title reminds us of a Big Idea captured by the legendary strategist Herman Kahn in “On Thermonuclear War.” To illustrate the problem posed by nuclear arsenals that many embraced as the best way to prevent war and aggression, Kahn imagined a “doomsday machine.” This multimegaton nuclear weapon would be buried deep underground.

   Is Nuclear War Inevitable? - The New York Times

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   Will the Doomsday Machine lead to nuclear winter?

   • And Ellsberg makes the case in his shocking new memoir, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, that such an exchange would inevitably result in nuclear winter.

   Book review: Daniel Ellsberg’s ‘The Doomsday Machine’ - Berkeleyside

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   Does the United States have a doomsday machine?

   • Although the United States has never constructed a doomsday machine, the concept was mimicked in the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD), which was the basis of both U.S. and Soviet nuclear strategy in the 1960s and ’70s.

   Doomsday machine | Nuclear Deterrence & Cold War History | Britannica

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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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   Did Russia develop a doomsday machine?

   • In 1993 a respected U.S. expert on the Russian military asserted in an interview that the Soviet Union had developed a type of doomsday machine in the early 1980s and that the device was still operative in Russia.

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   Dec 5, 2017 · When 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.