Incredible memoir & history of nuclear war planning. I haven't checked out the website with supplemental info, but I feel like this could have been a much longer book. Does a great job of exploding the commonly held rationale for the U.S.'s obscenely bloated nuclear arsenal. The biggest revelation to me was how resistant the military is to civilian control of the nuclear arsenal, and how early that resistance manifested. For all of Eisenhower's rhetoric about the military-industrial complex, this book also makes it clear that he couldn't have taken the threat of the militarization of society all that seriously. The logic of nuclear war planning has always struck me as so illogical as to read like science fiction, but the Doomsday Machine does a good job of showing how nuclear weapons relate to our everyday reality, and what the real effects of them ever being used would be.