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The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg - Book Summary
“The Man Who Helped Build the Bomb He Came to Fear”
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Title: The Doomsday Machine
Author: Daniel Ellsberg
Category: Politics & Current Affairs, World History
What if the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers had helped design the nuclear war plan first? Sam can't shake that framing, and it turns out to be the whole point of the book.
Sam and Sophie walk through Ellsberg's confession from the inside: the strategy that was built to win a nuclear war rather…
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