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Doctorow, and economist John Kenneth Galbraith, Iron Mountain would eventually take on a life of its own..
Although finally identified as an antimilitarist hoax by writer/editor Leonard Lewin, who conceived and launched the book with a consortium of peace movement intellectuals including future NATION editors Victor Navasky and Richard Lingerman, novelist E.
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Upon its first appearance in 1967, this best-selling "secret government report" sparked immediate debate among journalists and scholars with its disturbingly convincing claim: a condition of "permanent peace" at the end of the Cold War would threaten our nation\'s economic and social stability.
STRANGELOVE falls the perplexing, ingenious, and ceaselessly curious Report from Iron MOUNTAIN.
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