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2017057657 |
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DLC |
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20190729110852.0 |
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| LC control number |
2017057657 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781608196708 (hardcover) |
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9781608196746 (epub) |
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pcc |
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n-us--- |
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DLC |
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eng |
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rda |
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DLC |
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MvI |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
U264.3 |
| Item number |
.E55 2017 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
355.02/17092 |
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B |
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23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ellsberg, Daniel, |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The doomsday machine : |
| Remainder of title |
confessions of a nuclear war planner / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Daniel Ellsberg. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
Confessions of a nuclear war planner |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Bloomsbury, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
420 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-387) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Part 1. The bomb and I -- How could I? The making of a nuclear war planner -- Command and control: managing catastrophe -- Delegation: how many fingers on the button? -- Iwakuni: nuclear weapons off the books -- The Pacific Command -- The war plan: reading the JSCP -- Briefing Bundy -- "My" war plan -- Questions for the Joint Chiefs: how many will die? -- Berlin and the missile gap -- A tale of two speeches -- My Cuban missile crisis -- Cuba: the real story -- The road to doomsday -- Bombing cities -- Burning cities -- Killing a nation -- Risking doomsday I: Atmospheric ignition -- Risking doomsday II: The hell bomb -- The Strangelove paradox -- First-use threats: using our nuclear weapons -- Dismantling the doomsday machine. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking first-hand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority to initiate use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the secret plans for general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed, would cause the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization--and its proposed renewal under the Trump administration--threatens our very survival. No other insider with high level access has written so candidly of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era. Framed as a memoir--a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating--this gripping expose reads like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing "doomsday machine" and avoid nuclear catastrophe, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistleblower. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful--and powerfully important--book about not just our country, but the future of the world."--Provided by publisher. |
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| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ellsberg, Daniel. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Nuclear weapons |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Nuclear warfare |
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Government policy |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Rand Corporation |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
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United States. |
| Subordinate unit |
Department of Defense |
| General subdivision |
Officials and employees |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Nuclear weapons |
| General subdivision |
Government policy |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
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History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Military planning |
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United States |
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History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
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Military policy |
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History |
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20th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Nuclear warfare |
| General subdivision |
Prevention. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Cold War. |
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u792423 |
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