The Trump administration’s nuclear policy review loosens constraints on the use of nuclear weapons. We should all be worried
Too bad the book flying off the shelves isn’t the other one about “fire and fury”, The Doomsday Machine, Daniel Ellsberg’s startling volume about his life as a nuclear war planner. It is as riveting as the Michael Wolff book and several orders of magnitude more terrifying.
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Ellsberg shows how human extinction is integral to the nuclear design, and warns that the world has run out of time.
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