{"id":74184,"date":"2017-12-06T01:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T09:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/daniel-ellsbergs-memoir-about-life-as-a-nuclear-war-planner-would-be-terrifying-even-if-trump-werent-president"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:01:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:01:47","slug":"daniel-ellsbergs-memoir-about-life-as-a-nuclear-war-planner-would-be-terrifying-even-if-trump-werent-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/daniel-ellsbergs-memoir-about-life-as-a-nuclear-war-planner-would-be-terrifying-even-if-trump-werent-president","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Ellsberg\u2019s Memoir About Life as a Nuclear War Planner Would Be Terrifying Even if Trump Weren\u2019t President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/daniel-ellsbergs-memoir-about-life-as-a-nuclear-war-planner-would-be-terrifying-even-if-trump-werent-president.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Ellsberg gained notoriety in the early 1970s for leaking the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department\u2019s top-secret history of the Vietnam War, and then for outspokenly protesting the war and the government\u2019s secrecy which sustained it. Yet few, then or now, are aware that he spent much of the previous decade immersed in highly classified studies of the U.S. nuclear-war machine: how it works, who can launch an attack, and how much devastation it can wreak if someone ever pushed the button.<\/p>\n<p>His new book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, is his long-gestating memoir of those times and the years since, and it is one of the best books ever written on the subject\u2014certainly the most honest and revealing account by an insider who plunged deep into the nuclear rabbit hole\u2019s mad logic and came out the other side.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dr. Strangelove \u201cwas a documentary,\u201d writes the man behind the Pentagon Papers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/books\/2017\/12\/the_doomsday_machine_daniel_ellsberg_s_sobering_new_memoir_about_life_as.html\">http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/books\/2017\/12\/the_doomsda...fe_as.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ellsberg gained notoriety in the early 1970s for leaking the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department\u2019s top-secret history of the Vietnam War, and then for outspokenly protesting the war and the government\u2019s secrecy which sustained it. Yet few, then or now, are aware that he spent much of the previous decade immersed in highly classified [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1490,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-government","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74211,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74184\/revisions\/74211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}