doomsday machine

I want to close with some words from Daniel Ellsberg’s book "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner," summing up the preparations for nuclear war.

More disturbing is the Soviet Union’s “Doomsday Machine,” a network of nuclear bombs programmed to be triggered by an attack on the homeland and impossible to countermand — and which, if we are to interpret the movie’s closing montage as it seems to be intended, fulfills its purpose.

Daniel Ellsberg wrote, near the close of his vital 2018 book "The Doomsday Machine":

His books include "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" in 2017 and "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" in 2002.

And in the last two decades, he wrote two memoirs—Secrets and The Doomsday Machine—that rank among the best chronicles of a life immersed in, and grappling with, our common Cold War legacy.