Is nuclear war inevitable?

THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner By Daniel Ellsberg 420 pp. Bloomsbury. $30. read more

Daniel Ellsberg’s “The Doomsday Machine” is a passionate call for reducing the risk of total destruction. read more

Martin E. Hellman. Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. Dr. Hellman is beset known as the inventor of the"public key" and"trap door" cryptographic techniques. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. read more

Hence, nuclear war is inevitable. We could recover from a nuclear war. The one that really scares me is a biological war with multiple pathogens distributed via the airline vector with agents that have a long enough gestation time that by the time they start expressing they are everywhere. read more