The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg Summary
Overview of The Doomsday Machine
Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower, reveals chilling nuclear secrets he kept hidden for decades. This insider confession exposes how close humanity came - and remains - to extinction, prompting urgent policy debates among security experts worldwide.
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Living Under the Shadow of Nuclear Armageddon
Picture this: It's 1961, and you're holding a classified document in a White House office. The paper reveals that a U.S. nuclear first strike would kill 275 million people immediately, with deaths rising to 625 million when including fallout across Europe and neutral countries. That's one hundred Holocausts in a single strike. This wasn't fiction or a hypothetical scenario - this was the actual U.S. war plan that Daniel Ellsberg, later famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers, was staring at. "The Doomsday Machine" draws on Ellsberg's unique insider experience as a nuclear war planner and his five decades of activism, offering a chilling glimpse into how close humanity has repeatedly come to annihilation. When Ellsberg joined RAND Corporation in 1958 as a strategic analyst, he entered a world of apocalyptic calculations. He and his colleagues engaged in what seemed the most important work imaginable - preventing nuclear war by ensuring Soviet leaders would face unacceptable consequences for attacking America. The logic was brutally simple: adequate deterrence required a survivable capability to kill more Soviet citizens than the twenty million who died in World War II. While most RAND colleagues studied weapons vulnerability, Ellsberg specialized in the understudied but critical area of nuclear command and control. What particularly concerned him was the problem of "ambiguity" in strategic warning. In 1960, the new Ballistic Missile Early Warning System in Greenland generated a false alarm when radar signals bounced off the rising moon, causing executives to be evacuated in panic, believing nuclear war had begun.
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