The doomsday machine: confessions of a nuclear war planner (Record no. 62663)
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| fixed length control field | 02122nam a2200145 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781408899892 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 355.0217092 |
| Item number | ELS/D |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Ellsberg, Daniel |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The doomsday machine: confessions of a nuclear war planner |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London |
| Name of publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Year of publication | 2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 420p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, the first insider exposé of the awful dangers of America's hidden, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that is chillingly still extant<br/><br/>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 now-declassified documents and makes clear their shocking relevance for today.<br/><br/>The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising account of the most dangerous arms build-up in the history of civilisation, whose legacy - and proposed renewal under the Trump 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 discussion of recent research on nuclear winter shows that even a 'small' nuclear exchange would cause billions of deaths by global nuclear famine.<br/><br/>Framed as a memoir - a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating - this gripping exposé reads like a thriller with cloak-and-dagger intrigue, returning him to his role as whistle-blower. It is a real-life Dr Strangelove story, but an ultimately hopeful - and powerfully important - book. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Military planning |
| -- | Nuclear warfare--Government policy |
| -- | Nuclear weapons--Government policy |
| -- | Military policy |
| -- | Nuclear warfare--Prevention |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BK |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 22/09/2021 | 499.00 | 355.0217092 ELS/D | 53511 | BK |