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authorBryan Newbold <bnewbold@archive.org>2018-08-10 15:59:40 -0700
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+The Doomsday Machine, by Daniel Ellsberg
+--------------------------------------------
+
+First half is a personal narrative of Ellsberg's investigations into nuclear
+command and control and general war planning issues, particularly in the pre-
+and early ICBM period (when the Soviets has very few ICBMs, but many US leaders
+thought they had thousands), up to the Cuban missle crisis.
+
+Second half is a history, starting before WW2, of how "strategic bombing"
+developed as the status quo of large scale warfare (at least by the USA and
+allies), cumulating in the normalization of strategic nuclear bombing
+infrastructure.
+
+"Fire insurance executives, who were experts in averting the spread of fires
+(to keep rates down), proved inventive in advising how to reverse that
+process. American economists [...] came to London air headquarters as experts
+in how an economy worked, how it hung together and what its nodes of
+interdependence or bottlenecks were, and thus how it could be dismanteled by
+bombing. This gradually merged with the unacknowledged quest of Bomber Command:
+how to destroy a city." (p252)
+
+"Sam, war is killing people. When you kill enough of them, the other guy quits"
+-- Curtis LeMay
+
+A Vast Machine
+-----------------
+
+Shadow Libraries
+-------------------