The Doomsday Machine - Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg

Category: Political

Narrator: Steven Cooper

Tags: Political, History, Military

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 Americas 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 Ellsbergs hair-raising insiders 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. Ellsbergs analysis of recent research on nuclear winter s