Anyone finding themselves interested in this stuff should pick themselves up a copy of Daniel Ellsberg’s book The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War

Anyone finding themselves interested in this stuff should pick themselves up a copy of Daniel Ellsberg’s book The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. He elaborates a lot of the history of our nuclear strategy and development of arsenals, and why land based missiles don’t make sense.