A passionate call . . . Ellsberg's effort to make vivid the genuine madness of the 'doomsday machine,' and the foolishness of betting our survival on mutually assured destruction, is both commendable and important.

The New York Times Book Review on The Doomsday Machine

Nobody could have told this horrifying story better . . . What a book.

Arundhati Roy on The Doomsday Machine

A groundbreaking and nightmare-inducing account of how the whole mad system works.

Esquire on The Doomsday Machine

One of the best books ever written on the subject-certainly the most honest and revealing account by an insider who plunged deep into the nuclear rabbit hole's mad logic and came out the other side.

Slate on The Doomsday Machine