US Secret World-Ending Nuclear Doomsday Machine Revealed – and it Still Works

Daniel Ellsberg originally gained notoriety during the 1970s for leaking the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department’s top-secret history of the Vietnam War. He was outspoken in protesting the war and the government’s secrecy which sustained it.

But it was Daniel Ellsberg’s time spent during much of the previous decade immersed in highly classified studies of the U.S. nuclear-war machine which leads to his current notoriety. He studied how this nuclear war machine works, who can launch an attack and how much devastation it can wreak if someone ever did push the button.

His 5 December 2017 book, “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner”, is his long-gestating memoir of those times and the years since. Many consider it to be one of the best books ever written on the subject, an honest and revealing account by an insider who plunged deep into the nuclear rabbit hole’s mad logic and came out the other side.

Ellsberg’s book title was inspired by the film “Dr. Strangelove”. 

In the film, the Soviets have secretly buried what they call a “doomsday machine”, which are in fact several very powerful hydrogen bombs hooked up to well-placed seismometers. If the sensors detect the explosion of a nuclear weapon, they will automatically detonate the H-bombs, spreading radioactive fallout and killing all life on Earth.

And this is where the title of Ellsberg’s book takes on a broader meaning. The very existence of large nuclear arsenals, poised to attack one another at a moment’s notice, forms almost inherently a “doomsday machine.”

The logic of that machine creates the “catastrophe waiting to happen” scenario.

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