The classified proposal suggested that when America's missile detection systems detected Soviet missiles flying over the North Pole towards missile fields in Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Missouri, the rectangular field of Atlas rockets could be triggered.
Ellsberg, a nuclear war planner, revealed the plan to pause Earth's rotation in his book 'The Doomsday Machine,' realizing it had been seriously considered despite initial skepticism.
Ellsberg identified flaws in the plan, including the fact that Earth's angular momentum would cause everything to continue moving sideways at high speeds despite any attempt to pause the planet's rotation.
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