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The Doomsday Machine
- Narrated by: Steven Cooper
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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Publisher's Summary
At the same time 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. Here for the first time he reveals the contents of those documents and makes clear their shocking relevance for today.
The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy - and renewal under the Obama 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, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era. Ellsberg's analysis of recent research on nuclear winter shows that even a 'small' nuclear exchange would cause billions of deaths by global nuclear famine. Ellsberg, in the end, offers steps we can take under a new administration to avoid nuclear catastrophe.
Framed as a memoir, this thriller with cloak-and-dagger intrigue places Ellsberg back in his natural role as whistle-blower. It is a real-life Dr. Strangelove story but an ultimately hopeful - and powerfully important - audiobook.
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- OMNISKYS
- 2019-07-26
A must read
One of the best audio books I've listened to. Narrator was quite good and author had lots of interesting historical facts. An incredibly important book to listen or read.
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- JJ
- 2020-05-22
Very Interesting!
This was an interesting listen. It was a great account by someone who was directly involved but far enough removed to give an honest and unbiased account. It got a little boring at the end but for 9/10 of the book I couldn’t stop listening.
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- Daniel Lipworth
- 2021-04-09
The most important book you'll ever read
There is more more important topic or anyone more qualified to discuss it than Daniel Ellsberg.
Insider information from the guy who literally wrote the book on nuclear war, dug deep into the culture behind it and recoiled from what he saw in such a profound way that he risked his life and family just to warn people about it.
No matter how much you think you know about nukes and when and why they might be used, you'll learn things you didn't think were possible. Daniel is right. We need to step back from this nuclear madness before it's too late.
Narrator leaves something to be desired but don't let it get to you, it could be read by a text-to-speech program and you'll still be riveted. The content is what matters.
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