Author: Daniel Ellsberg
The Doomsday Machine is Daniel Ellsberg’s insider’s account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy — and proposed renewal under the Trump 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, though the policies remain fundamentally, and frighteningly, unchanged, according to a review on goodreads.com
Ellsberg, in the end, offers steps we can take under the current administration to avoid nuclear catastrophe.
