April 9th 2018
The Doomsday Machine. Daniel Ellsberg.
The Doomsday Machine. Daniel Ellsberg. 2017. ISBN 9781608196746. This may be the most terrifying non fiction book you may read. Ellesberg ( He of the Pentagon Papers) was a long time RAND nuclear war analyst. Along with the Pentagon papers, exposing the lying to the American public around the Vietnam War, he also retained papers he worked on for many presidents about the lies and misrepresentations about the nuclear build up. Japan was willing to surrender before Hiroshima due to the heavy firebombing the cities were being subjected to. Truman did not have to use the A bomb. There was never a missile gap between US and Russia . The US had 100’s of missiles when the Russians had 4. Once a missile, airplane or subs are sent out with a nuclear mission, it can not be recalled, as a deliberate military decision, since politicians may second guess. Between Eisenhower and Kennedy the military industrial complex spent unneeded billions on nuclear buildups. This continues today so that the overkill is still mind boggling. Worse yet is that in the unnecessarily manufactured race, both Russia and US have put in place Doomsday machines such that if one missile/bomb strikes Moscow or Washington it will trigger end of the world flash launches. Estimates of 500 million dead immediately, the Northern hemisphere is bombed and burning while the rest of the world dies off in 3- 6 months as nuclear winter kills all food and animal life. The smoke and ash from fires etc is driven high into the atmosphere and cuts off all sunlight rendering the earth uninhabitable for eons. So one madman can kill us all. There can be no limited nuclear engagement. It renders sleep difficult to consider this.
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