Thu February 1, 2018
Daniel Ellsberg: The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
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at King Middle School
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From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expose of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that lingers to this day.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the most remote 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.
The Doomsday Machine is a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful, powerfully important book about not simply our country, but the future of our world. It is being published at an alarmingly relevant moment, as North Korea is seeking the capability to target the United States with nuclear missiles, and an unpredictable president, Donald Trump, has countered with threats of "fire and fury." Experts on North Korea say that the risk of a nuclear exchange is higher than it has been in recent memory.
Presented by KPFA Radio 94.1FM
Host LARRY BENSKY is the former National Affairs Correspondent for Pacifica Radio (KPFA).
advance tickets: $12, 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores, $15 door, KPFA benefit more info: kpfa.org/events, wheelchair access
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Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the most remote 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.
The Doomsday Machine is a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful, powerfully important book about not simply our country, but the future of our world. It is being published at an alarmingly relevant moment, as North Korea is seeking the capability to target the United States with nuclear missiles, and an unpredictable president, Donald Trump, has countered with threats of "fire and fury." Experts on North Korea say that the risk of a nuclear exchange is higher than it has been in recent memory.
Presented by KPFA Radio 94.1FM
Host LARRY BENSKY is the former National Affairs Correspondent for Pacifica Radio (KPFA).
advance tickets: $12, 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores, $15 door, KPFA benefit more info: kpfa.org/events, wheelchair access
From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expose of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that lingers to this day.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the most remote 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.
The Doomsday Machine is a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful, powerfully important book about not simply our country, but the future of our world. It is being published at an alarmingly relevant moment, as North Korea is seeking the capability to target the United States with nuclear missiles, and an unpredictable president, Donald Trump, has countered with threats of "fire and fury." Experts on North Korea say that the risk of a nuclear exchange is higher than it has been in recent memory.
Presented by KPFA Radio 94.1FM
Host LARRY BENSKY is the former National Affairs Correspondent for Pacifica Radio (KPFA).
advance tickets: $12, 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores, $15 door, KPFA benefit more info: kpfa.org/events, wheelchair access
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Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
Here, for the first time, former high level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the most remote 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.
The Doomsday Machine is a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful, powerfully important book about not simply our country, but the future of our world. It is being published at an alarmingly relevant moment, as North Korea is seeking the capability to target the United States with nuclear missiles, and an unpredictable president, Donald Trump, has countered with threats of "fire and fury." Experts on North Korea say that the risk of a nuclear exchange is higher than it has been in recent memory.
Presented by KPFA Radio 94.1FM
Host LARRY BENSKY is the former National Affairs Correspondent for Pacifica Radio (KPFA).
advance tickets: $12, 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores, $15 door, KPFA benefit more info: kpfa.org/events, wheelchair access
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King Middle School
1781 Rose St, Berkeley, CA 94709
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