Report from Iron Mountain

In a tradition of political satire that ranges from A MODEST PROPOSAL to DR. STRANGELOVE falls the perplexing ingenious and ceaselessly curious REPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN.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. 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.L. Doctorow and economist John Kenneth Galbraith IRON MOUNTAIN would eventually take on a life of its own.