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  1. Peaceful IR Realist's avatar

    Yes, Ellsberg’s experience was in the 50s and 60s. I don’t know enough about these issues to have anything meaningful…

  2. Mark's avatar

    I haven’t read The Doomsday Machine, but wasn’t Ellsberg’s experience in the 50s and 60s? When Eisenhower was writing pre-delegation…

  3. Peaceful IR Realist's avatar

    On point 4, in The Doomsday Machine, which is based on the author’s personal experience as a RAND consultant advising…

  4. christopher ruth's avatar
  5. Mark's avatar

    In theory, the US retains a launch-on-warning *capacity* for the ICBMs. But I’m pretty sure they’re not on an actual…

  6. David Wallace's avatar

    On (4), and with the usual caveat that I’m not an expert here: The US has 400 land-based ICBMs, carrying…

  7. David Wallace's avatar

    In itself, not much. (A few quibbles: the estimates of deployed warheads are implausibly precise; the assessment of nuclear winter…

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